Knit Kitchenette in two colors—a solid main color and a gradient contrast color—for an easy triangle-shawl knit with interesting stripes! The stripes will highlight the changes in the yarn colors, unless you are like me and use a gradient main color, too, in which case you risk really messing up your one sample because the whole first repeat has almost no contrast—

Kitchenette is an attractive triangle shawl. With a bias triangle beginning and a top-down main section, it’s probably an intermediate knit, but shouldn’t be difficult for most with a little knitting experience.

The sample is shown in Sugarwheel Cotton in Honey, It’s Handmade colorway. (I have got a lot of misgivings about that. But that is the yarn.) It makes for a pretty substantial finished knit! You can also knit this in fingering-weight yarn, or at any gauge, if you’re prepared for your yardage requirements to differ substantially with added (or subtracted) pattern repeats.

Materials:

• 400 yards MC, 335 yards CC in cotton DK yarn
• 1 48” circular needle in US5-7/3.75-4.5mm, or size needed for gauge.
• Tapestry needle
• 1 removable stitch marker (you could have more! but one will get you through this project).

Gauge:
Gauge is 18 sts and 36 rows over 4”/10cm of garter stitch, worked flat and unblocked.

Pattern Notes:
Gauge on this project can be considered pretty free! The .PDF is fully developed around DK yarn, so it includes all the formal guidelines you’d expect. But the project is designed to be easily customized and adjusted to the yarn you have on hand.

Yarn Notes:
This shawl will look especially good in a solid-ish main color and a contrast color with a gradient or long, slow color changes. That’s why I’ve opted to recommend Noro Silk Garden Sock Solo (MC) and Silk Garden Sock (CC). Red Heart It’s a Wrap Rainbow might be a good alternative, too, if you’d like to keep the summery feel of this wrap.