Bender Shawl

This shawl will keep you warm while looking flamboyant, edgy, swanky, and a whole bunch of other really great adjectives. Designed to be knit in two very different colourways, this looks best when you combine one tonal or semi-solid skein with a variegated or speckled yarn in a sharply contrasting shade. I knit this seven and a half foot shawl in 4 days -- a veritable knitting bender, hence the name.

The Technical Stuff

Yarn
Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts Passion 8 80% Superwash Merino/205 Nylon 8-Ply Cabled Sport (330m/360yd = 113g,s/4oz) 1 skein each of two contrasting colours
Sample shown in Eiffel Tower (A) & Flamboyant (B).

Needles
3.75mm/US5 32”/100cm circ needles (or longer) or size to achieve gauge

Notions
Tapestry needle

Gauge
18 sts/24 rows = 10cm/4” in garter stitch after blocking
Gauge is not critical but will affect finished size and yardage needed.

Size
OS 90”/230cm x 14”/35cm