I’ve been searching for a shawl for myself for a very long time. Being a boy you can imagine that it hasn’t been easy. I was talking about this conundrum with my wife one day and she suggested that I do an asymmetrical shawl that mixed brioche with a textured stitch. ‘But how would I deal with the problem that brioche only increases one row for every two worked?’ I asked. Then it hit me, if I mix used garter stitch I could take advantage of its natural property to squish together. I tried it out and voila! This shawl was born. It’s a mixture of 1-color brioche and garter stitch, and if you look at it really closely you can see that there are 2 rows of garter stitch for every 1 row of brioche. Very cool!

Skills Used

• Single Color Brioche
• Knit 1 front and back
• Garter Stitch
• Sewn Bind Off (optional)

Finished Measurements
50” Wingspan, 15” tall, 47” bottom of long wing, and 30” bottom of short wing

Materials

• 3 skeins of Malabrigo Rios (worsted weight, 100% super wash merino wool; 210 yds/100 g skein) in Glitter
• 1 US size 9 (5.5mm) 36” circular needle for knitting flat, or size required for gauge
• Stich Markers
• Yarn needle for sewn bind off