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MÄÄÄRTA
Määärta is a triangular garter and stockinette shawl knit top-down, ending with a sheep border that can be knit either in stranded knitting, or intarsia. When you wrap the shawl around your neck, the sheep border ­tessellates in a way that accentuates the sheep, giving it a really pretty look.

The colour blocks are knit with simple intarsia, ­changing colours at the middle stitch, and is good ­practice for ­someone who is new to intarsia. The stitches increase both at the edges and at the middle on right-side rounds, and at the edges on wrong-side rounds. This makes it wider than a regular triangular shawl and makes it wrap better around the neck.

The sample shawl is knit in lovely, soft finewool yarn from Gisslause lamb farm on ­Gotland, ­Sweden’s ­largest island. The yarn comes from small-scale ­local ­production, and thus contributes to ­preserving the ­rural Swedish breeds. It also gives the yarn a genuine and ­sustainable quality. Read more about the farm on their website, Gisslause.se. If you prefer using your own local yarn, pick a yarn that is about 250 m/100 g (sport weight) and preferrably from a sheep breed with a soft and crimpy wool such as merino or blue-faced ­leicester, or finewool or Jämtland sheep if you buy Swedish yarn. ­Locally ­produced Swedish yarns can be ordered ­directly from the farmer in Garnförmedlingen on ­Facebook.