I originally created the Dancing Dragonflies on a pair of mittens. It was my very first published pattern. These dragonflies have since danced across socks, cowls, sweaters, and hats. I felt it was time to let them dance across a shawl to have them delicately drape across your shoulders.

This pattern is worked flat, knitting on the right side and purling on the wrong side. It’s designed to use fingering/sock yarn. This is a collaboration with Gingersnap Yarns using their Yak/Merino fingering yarn and has a specific order of colors for the dragonflies.

Each dragonfly uses approximately 2 grams of yarn, so it could be a great stash buster of left over sock yarn. You could make each dragonfly a different colour. Or have the flowers and dragonflies all one colour. Or have the garter border a contrast colour. And, because it is a shawl and not a fitted item, gauge is not as important. So many possibilities.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS:
Width (at the widest part): 15½ inches (39 cm)
Length: 68½ inches (171 cm)

YARN USED in photo:
Gingersnap: 70% superwash merino, 20% yak, 10% nylon, 447 yds/100grams; fingering weight; MC: Onyx (black), CC: Stormy Skies (grey), Dragonflies: Colour A- Amethyst (purple), Colour B- Key Lime (green), Colour C- Kai (blue/teal)

YARN REQUIREMENTS: (yardage has been calculated for the version in the photos, changing the sequence of colours or adding more colours will change the amount used. Please note that yardage can vary among knitters)
MC: 638 yds/ 583 m
CC: 337 yds/ 308 m
Colours A and C (6 dragonflies each): 44 yds each/ 40 m each
Colour B (4 dragonflies): 36 yds/ 33 m

Needles: US3 (3.25 mm)

GAUGE: after blocking, over colourwork pattern, knit flat: 29 sts x 34 rows = 4 inches (10 cm)

This pattern has been tech edited by Sigrun Jones and tested by volunteers.