Slightly Askew Shawl

Slightly Askew is a shawl based on a really simple idea - delightfully squishy garter stitch stripes in an asymmetrical triangle shape, along with some slip stitch columns running perpendicular to the stripes to emphasize the slight tilt to it all.

Colour-changing yarn isn’t a necessity here, but it’s a nice bonus if two colours just isn’t enough for you, or if you have the same colour-changing stripe obsession that I do.

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Slightly Askew is an asymmetrical triangular shawl knit starting from the side point, and getting continually wider. It is worked in alternating garter stitch stripes throughout with slipped stitch columns to emphasize the slant. The increases occur at the same rate until towards the end of the shawl, where they increase to create a thinner point for the final edge.

Sizing

One Size

72” (183 cm) wide by 21” (53 cm) deep.

Gauge

On US Size 4 (3.5 mm) needles, after blocking:

25 sts/ 48 rows in 4” (10 cm) in Garter stitch

Yarn

Schoppel-Wolle Zauberball, 75% Wool and 25% Nylon, light fingering weight, 459 yards (420 meters) per 100g ball, OR

Any light fingering weight yarn with similar properties that knits up to gauge.

MC: 440 yards (402 meters)

CC: 400 yards (366 meters)

The blue sample was knit in two shades of Zauberball, the yellow sample was knit in Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light and Tosh Mo Light.

The pattern was designed in Zauberball yarn, which has more yardage than many fingering weight yarns. The shawl can easily be made in other yarns with less yardage by knitting until you have just enough yarn left to work the edging in the MC yarn.

Techniques Used

Long-Tail Cast-on

Purlwise decreases

A Stretchy Bind-off - knitter’s choice, but a k2tog tbl bind-off is used in the samples