Bubbly bubbles! The Effervescent shawlette is knit flat in 2-color brioche rib. It is embellished with a leafy syncopated brioche edging, and features assigned pooling bubbles in the body of the shawlette.

Choose 2 skeins of fingering weight yarn, one of which should be
dyed for assigned pooling. The body of the shawlette features the assigned pooling yarn both in brioche rib and in the bubbles. The background color is featured in the syncopated brioche edging.

Based on much experimentation, I think this pooling pattern works best with a darker Background Color yarn, and a lighter Pooling Color yarn, because the pooling color begins the motif, but doesn’t carry all the way through it. A darker background yarn will keep from taking attention away from the pooling motifs.

Don’t be intimidated by brioche plus pooling! Assigned pooling works well on many backgrounds such as stockinette stitch, garter stitch, and brioche rib. If you can knit brioche rib, assigned pooling is a fun way to play with it.

The pattern includes both written and charted instructions. There is a video tutorial for the assigned pooling bubble motif.

Thank you to tech editor Meaghan Schmaltz, test knitters Ann Berg, Micaela Langevin, Ashely Meshioye, Lillyvette Montalvo Ostenson, and model Sharon Hsu.

Special thanks to Tammy Pelfrey/A Chick that Knitz, for the beautiful yarn for this design.