I love to buy laceweight and I love to use laceweight but I don’t need it very often. So I have lots of laceweight in my stash waiting to be used. Just doubling it up seems like cheating somehow. Why not just buy thicker yarn in the first place? But this shawl needs laceweight - it’s Totally Not Cheating! But it’s faster and more wearable than the shawl made from a 1000m+ hank of yarn on its own.

By dropping one strand at the right place you create a simple but effective pattern. It’s a very straightforward, easy to memorise pattern worked top down with M1 increases. With two different colours of yarn you can create colourwork stripes without worrying about intarsia. It’s easily adaptable to varying sizes of hanks, and you don’t break the yarn until the edging.

The two coloured version used less than 600m of each colour.

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