This is a gorgeously squishy shawl, a large size, easy to wear, and simple to knit! This features a marled look by holding 2 strands of fingering weight yarn together. I personally love the color blocked look, like the photos you see, but you can easily select yarn that will be more of a faded or gradient look.

I designed this shawl for my Advent Calendar 2019 “One Hit Wonders of the 80’s and 90’s” but it is also available to non-advent purchasers!

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2 skeins of lolodidit’s Loriginal (MC)
fingering weight 440 yards/100g

6 skeins of lolodidit’s Loriginal Lil Lolo (CC 1-6)
fingering weight 124 yards/28g

SIZE
50” corner to corner 47” at the deepest point
You can substitute 20g fingering weight minis, but your finished size will be smaller than this finished size.

GAUGE
17 sts + 27 rows / 4” (10 cm) in stockinette
Gauge swatch should be blocked.

TOOLS
all available at https://www.lolodidit.com
32” (80cm) circular needle, US Size 8 (5mm), or size needed to get gauge
Tape Measure
Darning Needle
Removable Stitch Markers Scale that weighs in 0.0 grams* Blocking Pins
If you have a scale that reads in whole numbers, that will work too, but it is less accurate.

Story behind the name:

I am a total 90s kid! I listened to New Kids on the Block, TLC, Shania Twain, Gloria Estefan, No Doubt, Selena, Savage Garden, Spice Girls… I could keep going! I’d make tapes recorded from the radio of the Top 10 charts every day. I had a major crush on Leonardo DiCaprio in the late 90s (Titanic anyone?). But, I think the thing that stands out the most to me are Lisa Frank stickers. Talk about some peer pressure! Yikes! Let’s just get this straight: I was not the cool kid, with all the cool stuff. I don’t know how much I begged my parents for the Polar Bear Lisa Frank folder and a sheet of stickers! Alas, these items did not help my “cool status” but! It did give me an absolute obsession with all things bright, rainbow, and neon! That love still lasts today and you can see it in the colorways I create. This pattern has been sitting in the back of my mind, inspired by those beautiful colors on my Polar Bear folder.