One thing Mr Yak loves is to be warm, and this will certainly keep your neck and shoulders toasty!

This is a fairly simple (mostly) triangular shawl that uses yarn overs to increase from a small tab cast on at the top of the shawl. Interest is created by using two different colors of a gradient or striping yarn, and there’s a little fun twist as you add two supplementary “points” midway down toward the bottom edge of the shawl.

Gauge is not vital, as this is wrapped around you :) but if you knit more loosely, or if you’d like to increase the size, you will need more yarn. There was not much yarn left over at gauge. Unblocked, this has a wingspan of 52”, and is 27” neck to tail, and well blocked it has a 60” wingspan, and is 30” neck to tail.

This pattern works best with long gradients like Schoppel Wolle’s Gradient, the Evolution yarns by Twisted Fiber Art, or the Ombre colors by Knitwhits Freia Handpaints. Mini Mochi would be fun to use, or Kauni, although those would have slightly different gauges. Yarns with shorter color changes will still be fun, but will be different in appearance. Even using the same color twice will work if they are offset enough that they don’t blend together.

This project is an example of using two different colors that have a short repeat in a similarly striped pattern (2 rows of each)

The only materials other than fiber and needles will be stitch markers (five) and a tapestry needle.

Wet blocking will help to emphasize the pointy parts of the shawl - in the pattern there’s a partial photo of this with my helpful assistant, ‘Tabi’ supervising my work.