The Color Adventure Shawl is a top-down triangle shawl that works best with a color-changing yarn that has long color changes like the sample yarn, Gauge Dye Works self-striping shawl yarn. Instead of working specific row amounts, whenever the color changes, you change stitch patterns.
All of the stitch patterns are simple enough for beginners – but interesting enough to keep knitters of all levels engaged.
The final section introduces some rows of eyelets, more simple texture, and finishes with a few rows of garter stitch and a picot bind off.
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Details
Sizing
One Size
Finished Measurements:
Wingspan: 62 in [157.5 cm]
Depth: 24 in [61 cm]
Yarn
This shawl is designed with a CYC 1 Super Fine yarn that has very long color changes to create wide stripes of color. The sample is knit with a self-striping, 2-ply fingering-weight superwash wool yarn.
Amounts listed below are approximate. Total yarn requirements will vary depending on the type of yarn used, gauge, and any alternations you may choose to make.
Fingering weight yarn [Craft Yarn Council Super Fine 1]
639 yds [585 m]
NOTE: This is a great stash-buster project as well. You’ll need approximately 70 grams of fingering-weight yarn in various colors for the striped section and a 100-gram skein of fingering-weight yarn for the larger, final section.
Shown in:
Gauge Dye Works MCN Fingering (599 yds/548 m, 6 oz/170 g, 70% Superwash Merino, 20% Cashmere, 10% Nylon): 1 skein Whiskey in a Teacup Shawl Stripe
Needles
US 6 [4 mm] for working flat
Use the needle size you need to achieve gauge.
Gauge
19 sts & 32 rows = 4 in [10 cm] in Stockinette stitch
Gauge influences the size of your finished piece and the yardage needed for the project.
Notions
stitch markers (2), tapestry needle
Techniques
No special techniques are required.