The Resilience Shawlette was designed to be a quick and easy stash-busting make using two contrasting skeins of fingering/sock-weight yarn (one variegated and one semi-solid/tonal). The design features small “pillars” along the bottom edge and two “spines” along the center of the shawlette which, alongside the contrasting colors, are meant to evoke feelings of resilience and strength in times of constant shifts between good and bad.

The shawlette is constructed in an elongated half-moon shape consisting of five sections of increases and decreases. The “pillars” along the bottom edge are created by working every odd row into the 3rd loop of the first 1 to 3 stitches from the row below. The “spines” are created by working two full rows in the 3rd loop of the previous row in the center of the shawlette, just before and after the color change.

When selecting yarn for your shawlette, if you are using yarn from different sources or on different bases, you should check to make sure that the fiber content and ply of both skeins match. Fiber content and ply can both affect the drape, feel, and stitch definition of your work and may alter the symmetry of your shawlette if they don’t match. Fiber content should be listed on the yarn label in percentages. Ply, if not also listed, can be determined by untwisting a portion of the yarn and counting the number of separate strands.

The first half of the shawlette is worked entirely in Color A (the variegated colorway). The second half of the shawlette is worked entirely in Color B (the semi-solid/tonal colorway). You will need a minimum of 400 yards (one skein) of each colorway, but I highly recommend using skeins with 463 yards to ensure you have enough of each to complete the pattern. Most testers used hand-dyed yarns.

The completed shawlette has a wingspan of approximately 75.5” and a depth of approximately 15.5”. Depending on tension and blocking styles, testers’ shawlettes had wingspans of 70” to 90” and depths of 15” to 18”.