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Off-Kilter Shawlette

In Fingering weight yarn, Patterns, Shawls & Shawlettes, Shop sample available by Shannon

You won’t be feeling off-kilter after working this fun knit, in two or three colors. Mesh lace short-row sections and lots of squishy garter stitch make this a fun-to-knit AND wear piece. MaterialsFinished Measurements: 60” wide across wingspan; 15.5” deep at centerYarn: approximately 620 yards fingering-weight yarn total, split between two colors as follows: cA: 310 yards. cB: 310 yards. …

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Textural Healing Shawl

In Fingering weight yarn, Patterns, Shawls & Shawlettes, Shop sample available, Sport weight yarn by Shannon

In a knitting funk? Need some immediate gratification? This is a fun, fairly easy shawlette pattern with various textures just perfect to highlight a gorgeous semi-solid yarn. Its almost-half-circular construction sits just right around your neck; add the perfect shawl pin, and you are ready to rock and roll. MaterialsFinished Measurements: Small: 46” wide from tip to tip, 16″ deep …

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Margaret Sullivan’s Shawl

In Fingering weight yarn, One skein projects, Patterns, Shawls & Shawlettes, Shop sample available, Sport weight yarn by Shannon

One of the neighborhoods in Portland that I used to spend a lot of time in is Sullivan’s Gulch, named after the Sullivan family. Timothy was a world-class traveler until settling in Portland and building his homestead. He met his wife, Margaret, in Tasmania in 1841. This shawlette seems the kind of thing a globe-trotting, practical 1800s woman would throw …

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Cascade Range

In Aran weight yarn, Fingering weight yarn, Patterns, Shawls & Shawlettes, Shop sample available, Worsted weight yarn by Shannon

When faced with a knitting deadline and a discerning recipient, reach for something unique, like this asymmetric-in-a-different-way shawlette. This pattern has directions for working the shawl in either fingering weight yarn OR aran/bulky weight yarn. Both result in a shawl roughly the same size, and notes for adjusting size are provided. MaterialsFinished Measurements: Triangle dimensions: 60” x 30” x 45”.Yarn: …