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Myriad Stars Shawl is inspired by one of my favorite paintings - Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

“I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”- Quote By Vincent van Gogh

There are many interpretations of this painting and one is that Starry Night depicts hope. It seems that Van Gogh was showing that even with a night such as this it is still possible to see the light in the windows of the houses. With shining stars filling the sky, there is always light to guide you.

How Van Gogh captured “sincere human feeling” in his art so that it still evokes such an emotional response over a hundred years later is a mystery to me. In this pattern, I’ve tried to bring the essence of the ever-changing sky and the movement of the stars.

Myriad Stars is a top-down shawl that worked mostly in garter stitch, with eyelets, German short rows, and short row lace.

YARN:

• (MC): One Gradient Set in Miss Babs Yummy 2-ply Toes, (six 133 yd/121m per 1.3 oz/38g skeins) shown in Orion.
• (CC): One skein Miss Babs Yummy 2-ply of contrast color,
  (400 yd / 3.9 oz (365m/ 110g) skein) shown in Goldenrod.

Or approximately 420 yards of MC and 245 yards in CC of fingering weight yarn.

NEEDLES: US #6 / 4 mm (or as required to get the gauge)

NOTIONS: darning needle, 1 marker

GAUGE: 19 sts x 33 rows = 4” in garter stitch on US 6

SIZE (wet blocked and relaxed): wingspan 86” x depth 19”

ERRATA has been added to the pattern file:

• Sky (Garter stitch) Row 2 and all even rows (WS): kfb, k to last 2 sts, kfb, k1
• Mysterious KBF should read KFB (knit front and back)

Pattern instruction available in two formats: compact (3 pages, 11pt) and large print (12 pages, 20 pt) - instructions in larger print format ( this version is better for those who uses portable devices like tablets and e-readers; also for those knitters who have difficulties reading small font on paper)

On Instagram (find me as @galimka_knits) use hashtag #myriadstarsshawl