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About
I was feeling anxious around election time. I needed to knit, but everything I had on needles required counting or concentrating, and that wasn’t going to happen. I also was itching to break out the skein. You know the one I mean. The skein of yarn that cost too much, but couldn’t be resisted because of the beautiful colors and soft hand, the one to save for just the right occasion like a fine wine.

Bare Necessity is the pattern born out of these considerations, and it requires and provides just the essentials: a simple project for the mind to wander using just one skein of even your busiest yarn and a pair of knitting needles.

Construction
Bare Necessity is an asymmetrical triangle shawl designed to be comfort knitting both for crafting and wearing. The pattern is a simple, quick knit showcasing that single skein of hand-painted or multicolored yarn you couldn’t resist, but not so simple that you get bored with the knitting. It’s a snuggly small wrap for your neck or shoulders in alternating garter squish and mesh. The wingspan has a picot edge that you picot as you go. The long edge has an undulating wave shape and the short side is a straight edge.

Techniques Used
-Long-tail cast-on
-Picot stitch using cable cast-on
-Knit, knit 2 together, purl, yarn over
-Traditional bind-off

Yarn: Approximately 410 yards (375 meters) fingering
weight yarn
Gauge: 20 stitches x 28 rows over 4” in unblocked garter stitch
Needles: U.S. size #4 (3.50 mm) 24” circular or straight needles to accommodate shawl width of 32”
Sizing and Measurements: 66” (168 cm) wingspan x 13.5” (34.5cm) depth

Supplies and Notions
-Tapestry needle

This pattern has been test knitted and professionally tech edited.

Low vision edition includes fully written out directions in a single left-justified column using at least 24 point sans serif font. All images have descriptive text and no chart is required.

Purchase includes both versions of the pattern.

Like all Halo-Halo Knits patterns, 20% of the profits from every pattern sale are donated to advancing social justice, creating patterns and a community of knitters dedicated to making a better world. Profits from Bare Necessity go to Fair Fight, an organization mobilizing to end voter suppression and to Real Rent Duwamish.