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She wrapped her shawl a bit tighter around her shoulders as the cool breeze moved some loose wisps of hair across her face. There was the scent of apple blossoms and lilacs in the air. While mornings were still quite cool, the warm weather was finally on its way.

The Posey Shawl is a two-color triangular shawl worked from top-down. The main body of the shawl is sprinkled with little posies that are so fun to knit. The border is a 3 by 3 rib, worked in a contrast color that has a scattering of posies worked in the main color. Don’t let the border scare you – intarsia skills are not necessary to work these dainty posies!

The contrast color border with the posey flowers worked in the main color is the focal point of this shawl - and my favorite part to work. Since I started designing, I’ve most enjoyed finding ways to incorporate color without the use of fair isle or intarsia. These little posies are my favorite stitch pattern that I’ve come up with. By the time that you get to the border, you’ve knit so many little posies throughout the rest of the shawl that it becomes almost intuitive to knit them on the border. Using the two different color yarns does not require any special skills or wrapping of yarn - if you can knit a bobble, you can knit these flowers.

The pink and white sample is knit in Autumn & Indigo Merino Wool. This is the most wonderful non superwash merino that I have worked with. If you want to knit this shawl in a soft and squishy merino, I highly recommend this yarn. The coral and mustard sample was knit in Wooly Mammoth Fibre Co on her Natural Sock base. The rustic, yet soft yarn was such a pleasure to work with and has peaked my interest in trying out more rustic yarns. The final result is warm and soft with a rustic charm. If you prefer using yarns other than merino, this is an excellent option. Most of my testers used a superwash fingering weight yarn, which knitted up beautifully as well. Truly any fingering weigh yarn can be used.

You will need approximately 765 yds (700 m) of the fingering weight yarn for the main color and 330 yds (300 m) for the contrast color. All testers were able to knit the entire shawl with two 100g skeins of the main color and one 100g skein of the contrast color. To be safe, plan to use up three 100 g skeins of fingering weight yarn.

The pattern calls for US 4 (3.5 mm) needles, however, if you are a loose knitter you may prefer to use US 3 (3.25 mm). You will want at least a 60” (150 cm) cord for your circular needles when knitting this shawl.

This pattern is both written and charted. It has been tech edited and test knit