The moment I picked up a skein of WalkCollection Tough Sock in color Offshore, I thought of lakes, coastline, and moonlight bouncing off of rippling water. I knew I was on a mission to create something that resembled the picture in my head. I added 2 skeins of Sporty Merino in color Silence and went to work. The end result is a snuggly asymmetrical triangular shawl that alternates texture and lace to recreate the image I saw when I first picked up the yarn. This is a handknit love song, a story of yarn, music and imagination.

Finished size is approximately 55” across straight side edge by 42.5” across top straight edge, though you can end the final lace/stockinette section and switch to the border whenever you please, so you don’t have to go as far as the sample did.

While gauge is not necessarily crucial for this project, it is important, and the sample shown used nearly all of the skein of Tough Sock. A difference in gauge may mean you need more or less of the variegated yarn.

Materials: US size 5 (3.75mm) circular needle, 32” or larger for accomodating the large number of sts towards the end, sewing needle for weaving in ends, stitch markers.

Yarn: Sample shown used 1 skein of WalkCollection Tough Sock in color Offshore (variegated) and 1.75 skeins of Hedgehog Fibres Sporty Merino in color Silence (cream/tonal). If using different yarns, you will need approximately 400 yards of a variegated fingering weight yarn for the textured sections and approximately 725 yards of a solid or tonal fingering weight yarn for the lace/stockinette sections. You will lose some of the texture definition in the variegated sections, but that is intentional; you’re going more for the idea of ripples on water rather than a well-defined stitch pattern.

(For musical inspiration while working on this piece, check out the track “Need Your Love,” from the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle anime. You can find it on Tsubasa Future Soundscape 3.)