Crying Icicles was originally designed for and sold exclusively through Do Ewe Knit? as part of the New Jersey Wool Walk 2016, and is now available as a pdf download on Ravelry.

Like melting icicles, columns of slipped stitches drip down from the top of this two-color triangular shawl. Some are frozen midway, while others merge with the edging, pooling into the delicate snowflake border.

Techniques & Skills Used: garter tab CO, knit/purl, increasing/decreasing, slipped stitch colorwork, easy lace; this pattern is both fully written and charted.

Size: 68” length and 26” depth.

Yarn: Anzula Luxury Fibers Squishy (80% superwash merino wool, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon; 385 yards/352m/114g); 1 skein each of MC and CC, shown in MC Periwinkle and CC Gravity. The sample as written used approximately 195 yards MC and 385 yards CC of fingering weight yarn.

Other Materials: US 6 (4mm) 32” circular needle or size to match gauge; Yarn needle.

Gauge: 17 st and 40 rows/4” in garter stitch, after blocking. Gauge is not critical for this project, however a different gauge may result in a smaller or larger finished shawl, and different yardage requirements.

Thank you to my tech editor Kate Vanover, and to Karen Posniak for her always-inspiring LYS.