Yarndoodle

This shawl is an adventure of your own choosing – a doodle with yarn! Following the pattern will give you a shawl exactly like the sample, but i’ve also included tips to mix up the sections and color changes to make the shawl your own!

Don’t like one of the pattern sections? Skip it and substitute another one! Don’t have enough yarn? Add more colors! This is a great shawl to use up scraps or mini skeins. Don’t like multi colored shawls? Use 2 skeins of the same color! The possibilities are endless! You can even change your mind as you’re knitting!

This is a shawl that is both easy to knit, but changes often enough that you’ll never be bored while you knit it! Both beginners and advanced knitters will love making a Yarndoodle!

Gauge and Yarn suggestions are given, but unless you have very specific sizing needs, just use a yarn and needle that give you a fabric you like - enjoy your knit and stop when it’s big enough! You don’t even have to swatch if you don’t want to.

Finished Measurements (If worked as written):70” wide x 25” deep (178 cm wide x 64 cm deep)

This pattern has been professionally tech edited and tested for accuracy and clarity.

Testers enjoyed using high contrast colors and switching up pattern wedges, and all were extremely pleased with their results.

Gauge: 23 stitches and 40 rows = 4 inches in Blocked Garter Stitch

Needle size: US 6 - 4.0 mm

Yardage 750 - 900 yards (686 - 823 m) of fingering weight yarn.

The red and pink sample used Malabrigo Sock [440 yds / 401 m per 100g skein; 100% superwash merino] in the color Archange (red), and KnitPicks Hawthorne Speckle [357 yds / 326 m per 100g skein; 80% wool, 20% nylon/polyamide] in the color way Berry Smoothie Speckle.

The light and dark gray sample (the one that basically just looks gray in the photos) used two skeins of Dragon Hoard Yarn's Dragon Scales Base [437 yds / 400m per 100g skein; 100% superwash merino] in "light gray" and Dragon Hoard Yarn's Fairy Base [462 yds / 434 m per 100g skein; 70% superwash merino, 20% nylon, 5% stellina] in the Captain Jack Sparrow color way.