Learn how to knit this easy triangle shawl with an ombre color gradient. This bottom up shawl is knit flat with easy garter stitch in a luxurious cashmere yarn in 6 shades of blue.

Ombre Triangle Shawl is a beginner knitting pattern that produces something that looks anything but beginner: a sweeping garter stitch triangle in luxury Mongolian cashmere, shaded from light to deep through a gentle ombre stripe sequence. If you can knit, purl, and count rows, this pattern is within reach, and the yarn does the rest.

Construction and Technique

• Worked bottom up, flat, beginning at the widest edge and decreasing toward the tip
• Garter stitch throughout; deeply simple, deeply satisfying at this gauge
• Ombre stripe colorwork achieved through gradual shade changes between rows; no mid-row color management
• Triangle silhouette; single-piece construction with no seaming
• Gauge: 30 sts x 36 rows over 4 inches in garter stitch
• Beginner skill level: knit stitch, row counting, and basic stripe switching

Materials

• 6 Ply Zageo Mongolian Cashmere (Jade Sapphire), luxury fingering weight; 600-650 yards
• US Size 5 / 3.75 mm and US Size 8 / 5 mm needles (size options to suit your gauge and desired drape)
• Tapestry needle for finishing

Sizing

• Multiple sizes with full measurements in the pattern notes
• Designed to fit petite, standard, oversized, and plus silhouettes

What’s Included

• Complete written pattern in English
• Captioned video tutorial covering construction and stripe transitions

Mongolian cashmere at this gauge produces a shawl with extraordinary drape and next-to-skin softness, the kind of fiber that makes a beginner pattern feel like an heirloom project. Ombre Triangle Shawl is a first shawl worth keeping, and a handmade gift worth giving.