About the design
This shawlette is my take on classic Russian headdress – ‘kosynka’ (Russian for kerchief), which has a triangular shape and is usually made of woven fabric. You can choose to wear it as a head or neck accessory.
It is knit from one top corner to the other with increases and decreases to create a shallow symmetric triangle with a rounded tip. There is also a subtle cable running along the bottom edges.

Find many more projects from this pattern on Instagram, by clicking on its Russian tag #Russian_Косынка
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Size: I suggest relatively standard shawl size of ~140-150 x 40-50 cm / 55-60 x 16-30”, but the pattern is written as a recipe: due to symmetric construction, you can easily make your shawlette exactly the size you want (e.g. to maximize yarn usage).

Yarn: ~100-150 g / 3.5-5.3 oz yds of light fingering
to DK-weight yarn (~300-600 m / 330-650 yds per 100 g / 3.5 oz).
I recommend using solid or tonal yarns, or a slow gradient to ensure it doesn’t clash with the purity of the design.
Being a recipe, this pattern also works well for hand-spun yarns.
The content depends purely on the type of shawlette you want to get: from linen, cotton, silk, viscose for the spring/fall to various kinds of wool (including ones with halo, e.g. alpaca or angora) for the winter.
Sample was knit out of 2 balls of Katia ‘Air Lux’.
My testers have successfully used Malabrigo ‘Sock’, Lana Grossa ‘Ecopuno’ and ‘Cool Wool’, The Fibre Co. ‘Road to China Light’, BC Garn ‘Bio Balance’ and many others

Gauge: the sample was knit at 28 sts per 10 cm/4” (after blocking) – purely as a reference, no need to match it!

Tools:
• Needles: 2.5-4 mm / US 1.5-6, or size to get a nice drapey fabric (not too dense, not too holy) – usually a bit above the needle size range suggested on the yarn itself
• Measuring tape and (gauge) ruler
• Stitch markers (optional), cabling needle, tapestry needle, scissors, row counter (optional)
• Precise scale (in case you want to maximize yardage and are using an uneven number of balls/skeins)

Skills and Techniques:

• Classic long-tail cast on
• Knitting, purling, slipping
• Basic increases (M1L)
• Basic decreases (k2tog and ssk)
• Simple cabling
• Traditional bind off.

All difficult steps have photo- and some also video-tutorials (my own explanations / links to non-affiliated technique tutorials).

Pattern tech-edited and translated into English by Olga Barshai GingerHandcrafts