Use coupon code BOXINGWEEK22 to get 22% off the pattern price between December 26 and December 31, 2022.

This versatile pattern will work with yarns of different fibres and weights. It is a boomerang-shaped (or vortex) shawl, shaped with a double increase at the beginning of right-side rows and a single decrease at the beginning of wrong-side rows. You can knit up a shawl identical to one of my samples, or use the three stitch patterns in any combination you like. The steel blue shawl is knit with a Tencel yarn, hand dyed by Teresa Ruch, that I was gifted by the fabulous partners at Hands On Knitting Center. The pink shawl is knit with a DK weight wool-alpaca blend from Bergere de France that, unfortunately, has been discontinued. These first two samples are examples of tumbling stripes, which is a technique for controlling the variables of colour, stitch pattern and stripe width to produce rhythmic stripes that are more interesting than regular stripes and more orderly than random stripes. The teal shawl, knit with a heavy DK weight superwash wool, arranges the stitch patterns in an interesting way, but it is not an example of tumbling stripes. Size is easy to adjust, and there are notes in the pattern to help you. Search your stash, and you will probably find some yarn that you can use for this design. Or head out to your LYS and look for something new—I’m sure the owners will be happy to help you!

Skills you will need to know--or learn--to complete this project:

• cast on and bind off;
• knit and purl;
• yo increase;
• kfbf or kyok double increase;
• k2tog decrease;
• ssk decrease.