This shawl is the first I designed for this series, it isn’t the first because it is more complicated than the first two and I wanted you to be confident about this one! The working title of this shawl is the friendship shawl, because it can be worked as a pair one for you and one for a friend! I called it Skewjack because I worked for 2 seasons at the Surf village, and had some great friends who I used to do everything with when I worked there from 1984-86!

The Skewjack Shawl, is worked in 3 parts, a scalene triangle started at the point and with increases on every row, and decreases every other row, and sections with eyelet holes which get wider through the triangle. You then add two borders, one is bobbly, and the other is a ripple. I apologise, but there is some counting in this one!

Skewjack is called friendship because the original used one gradient yarn then two skeins in different colours, the bobble takes approx. one third of a skein, and the ripple two thirds. I made a second shawl using the same border colours the other way around and another gradient yarn for the main triangle. However you are also able to make this in just two skeins!

I have used Easyknits yarns for all the shawl colourways - I love Jon’s colours soooo deep and intense, and just right for this fun shawl.

The original uses a ‘Sushi Roll’ 80% SW Merino, 20% Nylon in a 4 ply/fingering weight, 100g and 420m, with a single transition means that there is one thread in the sock blank) which grades from pink to green via yellow (sorry no name!) with the bobble border in ‘Deeply Wicked “Queenie” and the Ripple border in Deeply wicked “Aquilian”
This first shawls paired shawl used a Sushi Roll “Killer Queen” which has a double transition (2 threads in the sock blank, which you have to cake before using) this uses “Aquilian” for the bobble border and “Queenie” for the ripple.

The third sample is made in just two skeins, I chose Deeply wicked, “Zippy” and “bigger on the inside”

Tension/Gauge:
Work your tension swatch in the same way as the first shawl over tr st. If you yarn has less than 400m you have to watch the gauge as you may run out of yarn. I do recommend for the main triangle, that you have a minimum of 400m, and 420m is ideal.

To make your swatch, make more stitches than you need for 10cm, so for 4ply chain 30, tr in the 3rd ch from hook and make 1tr in every chain along (28st) turn and ch 2 for the turning ch, work 1 tr in each st along the row, continue in rows of tr stitches until you have 12 rows. Then measure. This will mean that you avoid the edges where tension can vary!
If you have more rows/st than below, then you will need to increase the size of your hook, if you have less rows/sts, then you will need to go down a hook size

For 4ply using a 3.5mm hook you should get approx. 11 rows / 22 treble crochets