Modifying a pattern to be a lace pattern was a push for me. I wanted my shawl to be neck down, but have the lace rows. Also I wanted to have a zen knitting or process knitting shawlette. I didn’t want to have to think much while I worked. I had enough to think through while I worked with many issues coming up in my life. (Good things, by the way.)

After several iterations at working through this, I can now present - the Simple Garter Lacy Shawlette. It’s a variant of the Simple Yet Effective Shawl by Laura Chau. And this variant has her blessing.

The variations are

• I used a lace row.
• It’s only knitted in garter stitch. (Because I don’t like purling.)
• It’s meant to use a skein of sock yarn.
• I add in stitch markers to it’s really a brainless knit, even with the lace row.
• I don’t specify the bind off. I don’t see that a purl bind off would be of benefit here.

This pattern can be varied in size (depending on the amount of yarn you have) and in needle size. I used a single skein of sock yarn (Three Irish Girls Adorn Sock - 430 yards) for mine and size 6 needles). (Model is my youngest in elementary school. This is a good sized shawl for her.)