✨ The Story Behind Your Next Knit

“Whether every square matches or each one tells a different story, choose the stitch patterns and colors that make you excited to keep knitting to create a decorative strip that’s uniquely yours.”

This shawl’s decorative strip of knitted squares celebrates stitch patterns and color. Whether you’re revisiting familiar favorites or exploring something new, each square offers a chance to enjoy the stitches themselves. The simple shawl body frames the strip and lets your stitch patterns and colors become the centerpiece.

The Tinking Circle’s Fan Favorite pattern! 🌟

🧶 Quick Highlights:

• Techniques: Long-tail cast on, bind off knitwise, pick up and knit stitches, three-needle bind-off, purl cast on, bind off purlwise, crochet slip stitch (optional)
• Construction: You’ll knit 10 squares in your choice of stitch patterns, then join them into one long strip. Stitches are picked up along one long edge, and the shawl body is knit on sideways, attached to the strip as you go. A slip stitch crochet border finishes the edge (optional).
• Make It Your Own: Use one stitch pattern for all 10 squares or a different one for each. Charted and written instructions for the shawl body are included.
• Includes: A Progress Tracker to keep your squares organized
• Yarn Weight: Aran Weight

📐 Approximate Measurements:

Sizes: 1 (2)

• Top edge (A): 25.75 (34.5)“ 64.5 (86) cm
• Right edge (B): 62.5 (65.5)“ 156 (164) cm
• Bottom edge (C): 8” 20 cm
• Left edge (D): 60” 150 cm

🧶 Suggested Yarn:

• Recommended Yarn: Paintbox Yarns Wool Mix Aran (50% wool, 50% acrylic; 197 yds 180 m / 100 g)
• Colorway A (shawl body): Champagne White: 3 (4) balls OR 547 (781) yds 501 (714) m
• Colorway B: Pistachio Green: 1 ball
• Colorway C: Seafoam Blue: 1 ball
• Colorway D: Mustard Yellow: 1 ball
• Or 36 yds 33 m for each square. Less or more may be needed for your chosen stitch pattern.
• Or a similar aran weight yarn. Check your stash first!

🥢 Needles:

• US 7 (4.5 mm) circular needle, minimum 32” 80 cm for working flat, or size needed to obtain gauge
• Gauge needle size in the needle type of your choice for working the 6” × 6” 15 × 15 cm squares flat
• 3 double-pointed needles in gauge needle size for the three-needle bind-off
• US 5 (3.75 mm) needles in the type of your choice, or two sizes smaller than gauge, for the squares’ garter borders
• US 5 (3.75 mm) circular needle, minimum 32” 80 cm, or two sizes smaller than gauge
• US 7 (4.5 mm) crochet hook for finishing

✂️ Notions:

• Blocking pins and wires (optional)
• Removable stitch markers
• One stitch marker
• Tape measure or ruler
• Tapestry needle

📏 Gauge:

• 4” 10 cm = 18 sts and 25 rows in stockinette stitch after wet blocking (shawl body). The squares can be any gauge, as long as they finish at 6” × 6” 15 × 15 cm.

📝 Pattern Notes & Support:

• This pattern is part of The Purl-Pal Project, a first-of-its-kind collaborative knitting collection from Pattern Design Runway, Season 1. Every pattern in the collection is a blank canvas built from 6” × 6” squares, so no two finished projects will look exactly alike.
• This collection was tech edited by Nicole Hawkesford and Galaxy Nova Salo.
• A big thank you to the 17 test knitters who cast on early and helped make these patterns shine! Their names are in the ebook credits.
• Questions about the pattern? Please contact the designer at info@gamerbabedesigns.com.
• Questions about the ebook itself? Contact Ashleigh at hello@ashleighwempe.com or join her Ravelry group here.

© Copyright & Usage:

• This pattern is for personal, non-commercial use only. You may not distribute, sell, or reproduce this pattern in whole or in part.
• Rights to this pattern return to the designer in May 2027.

📌 Ready to Cast On?

Grab your needles and yarn, and let’s make something that’s all yours! Want to knit along with other Purl-Pal makers? Join the free January 2027 knit-along waitlist: Join the waitlist.