Take two very different yarns, add a simple slip-stitch stripe pattern, mix gently with your needles…. and you’ve knit the moon! Follow The Moon is a very knittable shawl, perfect for relaxing with, and the 3/4-pi shaping means it’s also a very wearable shawl.

Yarn

Yarn A: 100gr/ 400 metres of a 4-ply yarn.
Yarn B: 50gr/ 300 metres of a light and fluffy lace-weight
yarn.

You want a contrast in texture between the two yarns. Look for something strong and lustrous for yarn A - a silk or silk-blend yarn is perfect, but tencel or mercerised cotton may also work well. For yarn B, a fluffy lace- weight yarn - mohair or brushed alpaca.

For yarn A I used Caitin Silk (100% silk) for yarn A, and Caitin Kitten (68% suri alpaca, 32% silk) for yarn B, both in the Starless Sky colourway.

Yarn A does most of the heavy-lifting in this shawl, so choose a yarn that doesn’t snap easily. Yarn B can be more fragile - although, obviously, it doesn’t need to be.

Colour choices

Choosing identical or very similar colours for both yarns will emphasise the textural contrasts.

Variations

You can also play around with contrasts by choosing two very different colours for your two yarns, or by choosing two very different yarn weights - a DK-weight yarn A and a cobweb-lace yarn B, for example.