Speckle & Pop Shawl

Note: This listing is not for physical samples. It only includes the PDF instructions to knit this pattern.

This pattern is also available in Westknits Bestknits 3 - Shawl Evolution. 

If you download this pattern from the Westknits Bestknits e-book, the yarn and color information may be slightly altered to reflect the samples photographed in the book, but the instructions remain the same.

Sizes: Small (Large)

Finished Measurements: 86 (105)“ / 218 (267)cm wingspan length, 25 (30)” / 64 (76)cm from I-cord neck edge to I-cord chevron bind off. Measurements taken after blocking.

Yarn: Fingering (DK) weight

Yardage: Small Fingering Weight Version

MC1: 400yds / 366m

MC2: 400yds / 366m

MC3: 400yds / 366m

CC1: 87yds / 80m

CC2: 87yds / 80m

CC3: 87yds / 80m

CC4: 87yds / 80m

CC5: 87yds / 80m]

Select 3 colors of fingering weight yarns in a colorful speckled fade. I recommend 3 speckled colors, but you can also use solid colors if you prefer. I recommend a light, medium, and dark color for these 3 main colors.

Select 5 contrast colors for your color pops. These contrast pops will show best if they are different from your main colors.

Large DK Weight Version

Main Colors: Approximately 1400yds / 1280m total

I recommend using 7 or 8 skeins/colors for the main colors. To fade your main colors, gather a palette from light to dark. The sample shows 3 lighter main colors for SECTION 1 and darker main colors for SECTIONS 2 & 3. If you would like all sections to feature the same main colors, then I would get 3 main colors, 2 skeins each (6 total DK skeins). Then choose 1 additional dark main color (MC 3) and 1 additional light main color (MC 1) for the SECTION 3 chevron border.

Contrast Colors: Approximately 87yds / 80m of each color (shown using 5 contrast colors)

Shown in: Small Fingering Weight Version

Hedgehog Fibers Skinny Singles

MC1 - Heyday

MC2 - Fly

MC3 - Potluck (one of a kind blue with speckles)

Hedgehog Fibres Sock Minis

CC1 - Hunter

CC2 - Coral

CC3 - Kid You Not

CC4 - Hush

CC5 - Wish

Large DK Weight Version

Walk Collection Merino DK

SECTION 1

MC1 - Sprouts (lightest speckle)

MC2 - Grunge Peach (medium peachy speckle)

MC3 - Grunge Pop (darker green speckle)

Contrast colors are leftover bits of other DK or worsted weight yarns.

CC1 - Orange

CC2 - Yellow

CC3 - Green

CC4 - Blue

CC5 - Purple

SECTION 2

MC1 - Grunge Peach (light creamy speckle)

MC2 - Open Sesame (medium gray speckle)

MC3 - Galaxy (dark gray speckle)

SECTION 3

MC1 - light creamy neutral for the brioche background color

MC3 - Galaxy (dark gray) When MC 3 Galaxy color ran out, I used a medium gray color for the brioche foreground.

I recommend using 7 or 8 skeins/colors total for the MC of the DK weight version. The sample shows 3 light creamy speckles fading from light to dark in SECTION 1. SECTIONS 2 & 3 use mostly darker speckled skeins for the slipped stitches and the giant yarn overs with brioche. In SECTION 3, a dark foreground color (MC 3) will pop with high contrast against a lighter background color (MC 1).

Needles: 47” US4 (8) / 3.5 (5)mm circular

Notions: 62 (76) stitch markers, tapestry needle

Gauge: 22 (18) sts & 52 (36) rows = 4” / 10cm in garter stitch

Errata: For the post-MKAL PDF file (single pattern, not clues) --- Section 2 Row 7 (RS): delete instructions that follow “….. turn to work WS.” as what follows is a copy of Row 8 (WS) and not part of Row 7 (RS) instructions.

PDF corrected August 16, 2018.

In the individual PDF, the end of the Large Size Section 2 stitch counts should be 485 sts in the last RS rows and 484 sts in the last WS row…

Next Row (RS): Using CC4, k3, M1L, k to last 3 sts while closing the short row gaps, sl3 wyif. 485 sts.

Next Row (WS): K2, ssk, (yo, k2tog) 239 times, k1, sl3 wyif. 484 sts.