Jewel Shawl

GENERAL INFORMATION

Do you have a beautiful skein of coloured yarn that you just couldn’t resist buying? Team it up with two neutral shades and Jewel will take the coloured yarn and paint playful stipes and pops of colour across your neutral canvas. The result will be a stunning shawl that showcases your colourful yarn without overpowering the look.

This crescent shaped shawl worked from the top down. The shawl uses three very contrasting sock weight yarns. It’s mainly knitted in garter stitch with occasional rows of aster stitch that create the pops of colour. Full instructions on the aster stitch are given on page 3.

Yarn choice: Choose yarns with good contrast (light vs dark, or very different colours) that don’t share colours in common as the pattern will be quickly lost.

How to knit the Aster stitch - YouTube

MATERIALS

Main colour: 210 m / 230 yds sock weight yarn. Shown in Lang Yarns Jawoll, colour 03 (dark grey).

Contrast colour 1: 230 m / 252 yds colourful sock weight yarn. Shown in Lang Yarns Mille Colori Baby, colour 54.

Contrast colour 2: 210 m / 230 yds sock weight yarn. Shown in Lang Yarns Jawoll colour 23 (light grey).

Needles and Notions

4.0 mm (US 6) circular needle minimum 32 inches / 80 cm long, or size to obtain gauge.

Tapestry needle to sew in ends.

GAUGE

The overall gauge is not critical, but differences will affect the final size and yarn requirements.

On 4.0 mm (US 6) needles 18 sts and 39 rows to 4 inches / 10 cm in garter st after blocking.

SIZE

wingspan: ~84 inches / 210 cm, depth: ~14 inches / 35 cm.