Highway 191 is an easy-to-wear shawl, roughly half-circle in shape, though a little more angular. You can block it with sharp lines or with a softer, rounder style.

This shawl looks nice in a gradient or color-changing yarns, and it’s designed to be workable in a variety of yarns, with gauge as a mere suggestion.

Knit the body from one 440-yard skein of fingering-weight yarn, and then use another to knit the border—or use scraps and reserve a little over 1/3 of your total yardage for the edge.

The sample is knit from handspun fingering-weight yarn in Malabrigo Nube, so yardage estimates are a little rough. Whatever you use, please be sure to reserve enough yarn for the edging—you’ll need a bit more than 1/3 of the total yarn, so a good rule is to knit this shawl from one 440-yard skein and hold one back so you can knit the entire border.

Materials:
690+ yards of fingering-weight yarn—about 2 skeins of Malabrio Yarns Sock, your own handspun, or something else.
1 40”+ circular needle in US5/3.75mm, or size needed for gauge.
1 crochet hook in size suited to yarn
5 rbemovable stitch markers
Tapestry needle.

Gauge:
For the shawl shown, the formal gauge is 16 sts and 40 rows over 4”/10cm in pattern. This design should work in other yarn weights, so gauge is minimally important.