Weatherhouse is a simple triangular shawl featuring a bold, striped pattern and striking fringing. It is fashionably small in size and is easy-to-wear in a variety of ways, making it an incredibly useful addition to your hand-knitted wardrobe.

Weatherhouse commences with a garter tab and is worked from the centre top with increases at either side of the spine and the side edges. After stocking stitch stripes are worked, an eye-catching striped slip-stitch pattern follows and, finally, a striped garter stitch border. For added impact, multi-coloured tassels are added along the border edging. The shawl uses only 25g of each of the seven shades of sock yarn, making it a great way of using up small amounts of yarn. A much larger version can easily be knitted by simply doubling the depth of the initial striped section.

This pattern can be knitted in either Susan Crawford Bluem Sock or Lock, which are both spun at a local mill and hand-dyed at our Lake District studio. These yarns are available in a wide range of beautiful and varied shades, in either 100g or 25g skeins.

Bluem Sock is a high-twist yarn spun from Bluefaced Leicester fibre blended with nylon, making for a smooth, soft yarn and which produces colours in a stunning range of variegated shades.

Lock is spun from the fleece of the native Lancashire sheep, the Lonk, again blended with nylon to create a smooth, slightly crisp yarn which, when dyed, has a soft, watercolour-like quality to the resulting shades.

Follow the pattern, and use the seven shades I’ve selected or put together your own colour palette, using shades to work with your wardrobe.

Weatherhouse is knitted using Susan Crawford Bluem Sock or Susan Crawford Lock and is shown here in two colour ways.

Sample shown in photos is version one knitted in seven shades of Bluem Sock.

The pattern includes both clear written pattern directions, together with charted instructions.

Yarn kits are available at Susan Crawford Vintage.

Yarn
Susan Crawford Bluem Sock, 75% Bluefaced Leicester, 25% Nylon, fingering-weight sock yarn (100 m / 109 yds per 25 g skein approx)
Colourway One (Bluem Sock)
1 skein, shade Hay Bale
2 skein, Apple Blossom
2 skein, Undergrowth
2 skein, Baling Twine
2 skein, Rock Pool
2 skein, Farm Gate
2 skein, Room of My Own

OR

Susan Crawford Vintage Lock, 75% pure Lonk shearling* wool / 25% nylon (this means it is the first time the sheep has been sheared) 94 m / 103 yds per 25g skein
Colourway two (Lock)
1 skein, shade Le Ferre
1 skein, shade Lydia
1 skein, shade Asheham
1 skein, shade Orlando
1 skein, shade Tide
1 skein, shade Malus
1 skein, shade Red Sky at Night

Suggested needles
4 mm (US 6) circular needle (100 cm / 40 in)

Gauge
20 sts and 32 rows = 10 cm / 4 in over striped stocking stitch worked flat, after blocking. We obtained this gauge using 4 mm needles.

Notions
Stitch markers
Tapestry needle
Cardboard
Crochet hook
Scissors

Techniques
Garter tab cast on
Increases and Decreases