There are so many beautiful hand-dyed yarns on the market: variegated, semi solids and speckles. But it can be difficult to find crochet patterns that allow the yarn to be the star. This shawl uses one of each and combines them with stitches that really allow the yarn to shine.
Match up your favourite dyed yarns and explore their beauty with this large, wonderfully draping shawl.

Size
Wingspan 165cm/65in
Depth 56cm/22in

Pattern repeats can be omitted or added to make a smaller or larger shawl

Materials
3 100g skeins Vicki Brown Designs Standard Sock (4ply weight, 75% superwash merino, 25% nylon, 425m/465yds/100g) in
Col A (semi solid) Violacea
Col B (variegates) Vintage Christmas
Col C (speckles) Heather

4mm (US G) hook
A removable stitch marker

Any hand dyed or mill patterned 4ply yarns would work well in this pattern. The striping pattern means it would lend itself well to using mini skeins or small amounts of left over yarn (with larger amounts reserved for later rows)

Tension
16st and 12 rows in htr in BLO to measure 10cm/4in using 4mm hook, or size required to obtain tension.

Difficulty Rating
Easy/Intermediate

Skills Needed
Basic crochet stitches, raised stitches, spike stitches, bead stitches

Construction
Centre out symmetrical triangular shawl, the shawl starts at the centre of the neckline and grows outwards with increases at edges and in centre of the row.

This pattern uses standard UK terms (US conversions given in brackets)
This pattern was previously published in Inside Crochet Issue 133