![]() I love this big version, which measures 95 inches (241 cm) across and 20 inches (50.8 cm) long, but you could make a little shawl, a kerchief, or a blanket-sized shawl, whatever strikes you and depending on how much yarn you have. ![]() You can also make it whatever size you like. Gauge isn’t important and it won’t matter if a couple of rows look a little fatter or thinner than the others (and it’s actually a cool effect when this happens). The fun thing about a project like this is you can make it with whatever weight of yarn you happen to have the most of, or you can hold two strands of a lighter-weight yarn together to make it closer to the weight of your other yarns. You can even incorporate the yarn ends into the fringe on the sides, and/or add it separately. ![]() Start with your smallest balls while the rows are tiny, and use bigger balls as the shawl gets bigger. This is a triangular garter stitch shawl, easy as can be, meant to use up leftovers small and large. This one turned up after I was looking for stash-busting shawls for a forthcoming post, but I felt like it was worth mentioning because it’s such an easy and effective technique. So it is with the Scrappy Knit Shawl from Morale Fiber. And I can’t imagine I’m the only one with excess yarn on their hands (don’t call it too much), so I keep wanting to share them, too.
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