In recent years I have become a little preoccupied with the idea of reversibility in knitted fabric. I design a lot of shawls and scarves and these are both items that can reveal their “wrong sides” during regular wear. I’m not saying that’s the end of the world or anything, but I also enjoy figuring out ways to make it so both sides are nice to look at.

For this shawl I wanted to push past both sides looking nice and into both sides looking pretty much identical. Using a simple combination of knit, purl, and slipped stitches I was able to create just such a fabric and I hope you like it as much as I do.

This particular texture benefits highly from a yarn that has excellent stitch definition and the new Sport weight yarn Laurel Falls from Miss Babs fits the bill perfectly. It is round, bouncy, and the slightly heavier weight allows the columns to really pop.

I chose the color Sagrada because I love it and also it highlights the truly unisex appearance of this shawl. But I’m pretty sure it will look great in just about any color.

In addition to being reversible, the side to side construction of this shawl makes it very adjustable for size. Once you’ve gotten the set-up completed you can simply repeat the body texture pattern until you get the size you want or run out of yarn.

For this same reason you can also substitute different yarn weights easily, you will simply need to adjust your needle size until you get a fabric you like and the yardage required will be different.

Stitches used: knit, purl, kfb, ssk, s-wyif, s-wyib, YO