Outlander Claire’s ‘Rent’ Shawl - Designed by Grace Petersen

The design of the shawl worn by Claire in the ‘Rent’ episode of Outlander is quite brilliant in its elegant simplicity. Below is my interpretation of this design, with the garter ridges angling downward from the center back. I offer two versions of the shawl – the simpler single color version which is equally lovely in solid or self-striping yarns, and the tri-color version, as seen in the Outlander ‘Rent’ episode, which is knit using intarsia in garter stitch.

Casting on only 3 stitches, the back is a reverse mitered square increasing to the desired back width and length. The front panels are then knit out from the back, each in turn, decreasing until only 3 stitches remain to be bound off.