Superluminal: denoting or having a speed greater than that of light.

The stripes of variegated garter stitch contrasting with the background suggest to me the imaginary lines left behind when a space vessel enters faster-than-light travel. Whoosh!

The shawl itself is a shallow triangle that sits nicely on the shoulders. Suitable for a beginning shawl-knitter, Superluminal plays with both colour and texture and is a great way to show off a variegated yarn.

Designed for fingering weight yarn in two colours. You can use either toning or contrasting yarns to equally good effect or try using a different contrast yarn in each garter-stitch section to use up those delicious yarns from other projects. The sample shawl used 90g of the main colour and 47g of the contrast colour.

Happy Debs Chirpy is a plied 100% Superwash Merino yarn with 400m/437yds per 100g. You could substitute any similar yarn with the same meterage. Happy Debs Chirpy has been discontinued but it is now available as Crates of Wool Priory - it’s the identical yarn, just renamed.

Gauge is not critical, but differences could mean you use more or less yarn and your size would differ.

Huge thanks to my amazing test knitters: April, Karen and Kristina. Your feedback was invaluable.