Shawl the Minis

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For those of us who feel the call of mini-skeins. (How many minis do we love? Shawl of them!) This shawl uses 9 mini skeins. Easy to adapt to be smaller in size, or bigger if you’ve got extra yarn, this shawl hits just right for both playing with colour and knitting a simple project.

I designed this to fill two needs: 

1) a simple-to-knit, potato-chippy shawl that would work well as a travel project 

2) a mini skein pattern where the minis are used the same proportion throughout

Knit with 6 increases every 2 rows, the triangle is longer at the top and easier to wear than a traditional triangular shawl with a 4-st increase rate.

This shawl alternates 4 rows of stockinette in the contrast colours with garter ridges in the main colour. In Section 1, one garter ridge separates the colours; in Section 2, two ridges separate them; and in Section 3, three ridges. Finally, we edge the shawl with a delicate section of eyelet lace.

Checklist and stitch counts provided.

Skills Used

•knit and purl 

•m1r, m1l, m1pl, m1pr, yo 

•p2tog

Multiple video tutorials included.

Size

Width: 84” / 213 cm 

Depth: 29.5” / 75 cm

Materials

•Light Fingering Weight Yarn 

one 100 g skein plus one mini skein in each of 9 colours

Leading Men Fiber Arts Show Stopper (75% superwash merino, 25% nylon); 463 yd. / 423 m per 100 g skein and 92 yd. / 84 m per 20 g skein;

colours shown: 

MC: Vengeance 

CC1: Ain’t My First Rodeo 

CC2: Spruce It Up 

CC3: Atlantis 

CC4: Clean Slate 

CC5: Blue Steel 

CC6: Shantay, You Stay! 

CC7: Gatsby 

CC8: Oil Slick 

CC9: Industrial

•Needles  

US 5 / 3.75 mm needles for knitting large number of stitches, or size needed to get gauge

•Notions 

yarn needle, stitch markers

Approximate Yardage

(with a 15% buffer) 

MC: 463 yd. / 423 m (100 g) 

CC1: 56 yd. / 51 m (12 g) 

CC2: 60 yd. / 55 m (13 g) 

CC3: 69 yd. / 63 m (15 g) 

CC4: 74 yd. / 68 m (16 g) 

CC5: 79 yd. / 72 m (17 g) 

CC6: 83 yd. / 76 m (18 g) 

CC7: 74 yd. / 68 m (16 g) 

CC8: 74 yd. / 68 m (16 g) 

CC9: 87 yd. / 80 m (19 g)

Gauge

24 sts and 30 rows = 4” / 10 cm in Single Garter pattern (1 garter ridge followed by 4 rows stockinette), soaked and pinned to measurements

This pattern has been tech edited and test knit.