Knit your own Palette of Colors Shrug using these clearly-written instructions by knitwear designer Jackie E-S of HeartStrings FiberArts.
Create a masterpiece in color and texture to wrap your body in style and comfort. Palette of Colors Shrug features an interplay of tonal harmony across coordinated colorways of heavier textured yarn and smooth fine yarn.
A heavier nubby yarn frames disks of airy laceweight yarn, which in turn surround large eyelets of space and light.
The main body of the shrug is knitted first as a widthwise rectangle, with lower and upper edges softly scalloped and the sides at the arm edges slightly tapered with short rows.
The lace rib stitch cuffs are picked up and worked circularly beginning at the side selvedges of the main body, thus resulting in a no-sew "when you are done, you are done" project.
Choose two yarns, each in a different color variegation — one yarn in a slightly heavier texture, and the other in a lighter weight smooth yarn. I like the idea of picking colorways that have a slight tonal shift to give a luminous effect, but of course you don't have to limit yourself to that.
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Instructions in 5 sizes from Petite to Extra Large with cuff to cuff measurements of 55 [58, 61, 64, 68]". Choose two yarns, each in a different color variegation — one yarn in a slightly heavier crepe-like texture (C), and the other in a lighter weight smooth yarn (L). For the planned meansurements, you will need approximately 400 [450, 475, 525, 550] yards of C and 550 [600, 650, 700, 750] yards of L. US 8 / 5 mm needles suggested for gauge of 17 sts per 4 inches measured over Main Pattern Stitch for Body of Shrug (after blocking as for final project). US 6 / 4 mm needles also needed in your choice of double points or circulars for working the Wrist Bands in the round. Written stitch instructions.
Pictured model was knitted in Mountain Colors Wool Crepe color Chinook and Lorna's Lace's Helen's Lace color Sand Ridge.
