This warm weather, cotton-blend shawl pattern is perfect for travel knitting or travel wearing. The asymmetric, three sided design features a sawtooth edge and delicate picot bind off.

Knit with two yarn colors, the three easily memorizable stitch elements in the pattern combine stockinette stitch, simple lace and contrasting garter ridges in a way that will motivate you to knit just one more row.

This pattern includes charted instructions.

Yarn Weight: sport weight

Recommended Yarn: HiKoo Twisp (shown in #6006 Beechwood and #6008 Spring Bamboo

Recommended Needle Size: US size 2 (2.75 mm) 40-inch long circular knitting needles

Finished Measurements:

wingspan (neckline edge length) - 65 inches
vertical drop (from neckline to lowest point) - 16 inches

Pattern Length: 4 pages

What to Expect

• basic knit and purl stitches
• repetitive stitch patterns
• simple color changes
• basic lace
• color/stitch charts
• knitting in rows

Construction and Shaping

• point-to-side
• asymmetrical
• bias
• simple intarsia
• picot bind off

Video Support Series
Swaying Palms Shawl Playlist on YouTube

• Starting a Shawl with a Pinhole CO

• Purl Front Back (PFB)

• Simple Intarsia Color Change (BONUS: Demonstration of Row 19-20)

• What Does Bind Off 10 Sts Look Like?

• Picot Bind Off