This asymmetrical triangular shawl is worked in five colour blocks. Slipped stitches create an elegant pattern of lines on a background of garter stitch, with a different design feature in each of the five sections, including cables creating crossing lines, and bobbles to add texture. A faux i-cord creates a neat edging.

Designed using an ombre set of Uir yarn from Shilasdair Yarns, a bundle of 5 x 50g skeins contains enough yarn to knit 2 shawls, each shading in opposite directions – a shawl for you, and also one for a special friend, hence the shawl’s name.

Skills needed: Cast on, knit, purl, slipped stitches, M1R increases, bobbles, cabled stitches, cast off.

Suitable for intermediate knitters.

SIZING
One size - dimensions after blocking 50”/127cm x 23”/58cm

TENSION/GAUGE
4”/10cm = 29 sts and 48 rows over garter stitch on 3.25 mm needles (unblocked)
4”/10cm = 24 sts and 44 rows over garter stitch on 3.25 mm needles (blocked)

YARN
To make TWO shawls you will need a total of 1125m/1230yds of fingering weight yarn.
I used 5 x 50g skeins of Uir fingering weight yarn (50%BFL/50%Masham; 225m/246yd per 50g).

Alternatively, oddments of yarn could be used to make a single shawl in colours of your choice.

To make ONE shawl, using fingering weight yarn, you will need:
Colour 1: 25m/27yd
Colour 2: 70m/77yd
Colour 3: 110m/120yd
Colour 4: 155m/170yd
Colour 5: 200m/219yd

NEEDLES AND NOTIONS
3.25mm knitting needles (or size to give correct tension)
Cable needle
1 Stitch marker