Northern Lights

First published in Knitting magazine.

I love mini skeins, especially when I see a set looking like little jewels of yarn side by side, and that’s what inspired this shawl. I wanted to use small amounts of colourful yarn against a neutral background and create something that would work with a set of colours, your own pick and mix stripes and even as a stashbuster for the leftovers I regularly have after knittng socks.

This is a regular triangular shawl worked from a garter stitch tab start and increasing with yarnovers at the 

edges and centre until it reaches its full width.

The lace sections are separated by stocking stitch and the repeat should be straightforward to get used to.

SIZE

Wingspan: 205cm

Depth at widest point: 107cm

MATERIALS

Main colour (Yarn M): The Little Grey Girl Yak Sock (70% Superwash Merino, 20% Yak, 10% Nylon) approx 400m/100g. 1 skein in Foundry

Stripe colours (Yarns A to G): The Little Grey Girl Yak Sock (70% Superwash Merino, 20% Yak, 10% Nylon) 1 x Grubby Prism mini skein set (7x 20g skeins)

3.25mm circular needle (at least 80cm long)

4mm crochet hook

Smooth scrap yarn

4 stitch markers

TENSION

25 sts and 33 rows to 10cm over st st using 3.25mm needles after wet blocking.