Do not adjust your monitors, this cozy confection of a shawl really is stripes on stripes!

The Montrose takes garter stripes and two-color brioche—two of my favorite squishy textures—and alternates them up the length of an asymmetrical-triangle shawl. It’s long enough to loop comfortably around your neck, drape around your shoulders, or secure with a shawl cuff to make sure the ends are on full display.

Montrose’s quest for stripes was only aided by a pair of stripe-friendly yarns. Feederbrook Farm’s Entropy DK is a springy, BFL two-ply yarn that adds gentle shifts from color to color. Brooklyn Tweed’s Arbor provided a neutral canvas with the perfect toothy texture. Together, they make a shawl that’s lofty, plush, and stripey as can be.

Feeling like you want to color inside AND outside the lines this season? Montrose might be just right.

Yarn
Feederbrook Farm Entropy 240 yards (219 meters) / 3.5 oz (100 g); 100% BFL; two-ply DK-weight in Dark Energy.

Brooklyn Tweed Arbor 145 yards (132 meters) / 1.75 oz (50 g); 100% Targhee; three-ply DK-weight in Driftwood.

Color A: 410 yards
Color B: 420 yards

A note on yarn substitution: the sample yarns are both non-Superwash wool¬—one Bluefaced Leicester and one Targhee—and their toothy texture adds to the plush, squishy character of the shawl. However, you can feel free to substitute a Superwash wool or wool blend if you’d prefer. A Superwash wool or a blend of wool with linen, silk, or viscose will tend to be a little bit drapier with less body. You should be sure to wet block a swatch to make sure you’re pleased with the finished texture, as you might need to drop a needle size.

Needles
US 7 / 4.5 mm 36” / 90 cm or longer circular needle.

Notions
2 stitch markers

Gauge
18 sts x 36 rows = 4” / 10 cm in garter stripe stitch pattern, after blocking.
17 sts x 40 rows / 20 brioche rows = 4” / 10cm in two-color brioche, after blocking

Finished measurements
82” / 208 cm wingspan. 24” / 61 cm center depth.

All my thanks to tech editor extraordinaire rhyFlowerKnits and test knitters KaitKnitsRI, Laufversuch, xonishaxo, and @BeachyBreezeFibers