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Cherry Stone has arisen out of several necessities and an ever-so teeny tiny yarn addiction. Like you, I have a stash full of lovely variegated yarns, but find it hard to pick patterns to use them in.

Cherry Stone is an asymmetric shawl, which showcases variegated yarn and is also a solution to several shawl knitting conundrums:

• it makes use of a gorgeous skein of variegated yarn
• it features a ‘picot-on-the-go’ edging without a lengthly picot cast off
• the bold stripes are cleverly knitted without lots and lots of ends to weave in
• it uses simple short rows, with no ‘wraps and turns’, to create an easy-to-wear longer, scarf-shape shawl
• the short rows are closed using a row of contrasting bobbles, mirroring the bobble i-cord cast off

Yarn
Yarn A: 100g/400m 4ply/fingering-weight yarn in a solid colour
Yarn B: 100g/400m 4ply/fingering-weight yarn in a variegated colour

2021 Dark Red/Blush Version:
Cookston Crafts, Merino Silk Singles Fingering Weight, (4ply / fingering-weight; 400 m / 437 yds per 100 g; 70% Merino wool, 30% silk)
Yarn A: Cherry Cola
Yarn B: Rubus

2016 Black/Yellow Version:
Yarn A: 2 balls of Rowan Fine Lace, 934 Black (80% Baby Alpaca, 20% Merino Wool) HELD DOUBLE, 400m/437yd per 50g
Yarn B: 1 skein of Countess Ablaze, Lady Persephone Sock, Exile Colourway (75% Blueface Leicester, 25% Nylon), 424m/464yd per 100g

The pattern contains tips on completing the ‘picot-on-the-go’ edging, including a link to a YouTube tutorial and tips for blocking. It is fully tech-edited, and contains clear photographs, and a schematic.