Brioche, mosaic, and garter stripes combine to create a classic check

Make your shawl at any gauge and in any size you like. Just keep repeating the plaid pattern until you’re ready to bind off!

CONSTRUCTION
This shawl is worked side-to-side on the bias, beginning at one point and binding off along the opposite edge, with increases along the top edge only. A checkerboard of brioche, mosaic, and garter striped blocks create the illusion of a houndstooth check fabric.
Some sections of this shawl are worked back and forth in the “normal” way, changing colors every two rows. These sections will alternate with sections of one-row stripes, where you will work across a row using one color, slide your stitches to the other end of the needle, work a second pass in the same direction using the second color, and only then will you turn your work to go back the other way. Every two passes (one with each color) counts as a single row, so you will see row numbers repeated in these sections of the pattern. (If you’ve worked two-color brioche before, this should sound familiar.)

SIZING
One size, easily adjustable

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Span: 58 in / 147 cm
Height at center: 27 in / 69 cm

GAUGE
22 sts / 46 rows = 4 in / 10 cm in garter stitch, after blocking
22 sts / 23 rows = 4 in / 10 cm in brioche, because every 2 passes count as only 1 row

YARN
Light fingering weight
Light Color (LC): 490 yds / 448 m
Dark Color (DC): 490 yds / 448 m

SHOWN IN
Miss Babs Avon
85% merino, 15% silk
490 yds / 448 m per 100g skein
1 skein in Dawn Cloud (LC)
1 skein in Punalu’u (DC)

TOOLS
US 3 / 3.25 mm (or size needed to obtain gauge) circular needle, 24 in / 60 cm or longer
Tapestry needle
Stitch markers to separate repeats (optional)

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