The Wild Pinstripes Shawlette was designed to highlight that pair of skeins of irresistible handpainted yarn sitting in your basket looking gorgeous while waiting for you to figure out what to do with them.

Light as a breeze yet surprisingly warm, this shawl can be worn year round. The pattern highlights the contrast between smooth stockinette and a deep edging of lace. The winged crescent shape is achieved through fairly aggressive blocking.

Blocks of color stacked on top of each other form the intriguing Tower of Colors Scarf.

A simple, easily memorized slip-stitch pattern combined with four coordinated colors makes for a stunning neck scarf that is surprisingly easy to knit. The scarf features a stylish ribbed shawl collar and a matching ribbed section at the center back that makes it comfortable and easy to wear around your neck.

The Herringbone Pi Shawlette is an exercise in texture and color. It resembles a circular capelet, but has no buttons or buttonholes for maximum flexibility in wearing options. Leave it open and draped around your shoulders or use your favorite shawl jewelry to keep it closed.

The Fading Tweed Shawl is a dramatic and versatile piece that is sure to turn heads. The unusual shape of this shawl allows it to be worn in many different ways to achieve a variety of looks. Create sleeves by using pedestal buttons; add a shawl pin and wear it as a cape; wear it upside down. It’s all up to you.

This asymmetric triangular shawl is worked flat from the bottom point up, starting with just 3 stitches. It features a simple stitch pattern in combination with a gradient mini-skein color progression, Latvian braids, and a corrugated ribbing finish to produce a complex-looking texture that is surprisingly easy to knit.

The Midvale Avenue Shawl is designed to make full use of a gradient mini-skein set and uses an 8-wedge construction that produces a swirly shape that shows off those colors as it drapes elegantly around the shoulders. It is knit from the top down, using a simple 6-stitch, 12-row lace stitch pattern, then bound off as the edging is worked along the lower edge. Both stitch patterns are written out, as well as charted.

Designed especially for that gorgeous single skein of hand-dyed sock yarn that you don’t know what to do with, the Hilgard Avenue Shawlette uses a simple slip stitch pattern to blend the yarn’s runs of color, thus minimizing pooling.

Simple lines and simple stitches create a classy, modern look with enough pattern work to let the lace stand out.

Working cables in ribbing produces an astonishing double-sided fabric, even though the cables are worked only on the right side.

Combining a modern linear “striping” sequence with a traditional Shetland lace edging, the Patrice Wrap is a gossamer rectangular stole, perfect for dressing up a party frock for a summer wedding or any festive occasion.

This luxuriously long rectangular wrap, inspired by an image of a starry sky above a ring of evergreens, features two lace patterns; the upper pattern is beaded to evoke the star-filled sky.

A little confection to keep your shoulders warm, Rosaura is a crescent-shaped shawl knit from the bottom up using three lace patterns and finishing with a rolled stockinette neck edge. The stitch patterns show the beautiful shadings of this variegated yarn to their best advantage, while the shape helps to keep the shawl in place without a shawl pin.

This cozy neck scarf is knit from the bottom up. New stitches are added at each side edge to make a triangle with long, skinny arms—just right to warm your shoulders or to wrap and tie around your neck to cover that bare spot above your coat collar.

This quick shawlette is knit all in one piece. Beginning with three stitches, the main body is knit in a lacy ribbed stitch from the top down. The lower edging is then worked perpendicularly to the body. No bind off on this edge is needed because the live stitches are consumed as the edging is knit on.

The sparkling blue of the sea surrounds the shores of a jewel-toned island in this easy, heart-shaped shawl inspired by the classic novel, Treasure Island. The body begins with 3 stitches cast on at the center top edge and is worked down towards the bottom in stockinette stitch with yarn over increases. Optional beads can be added randomly during the last few rows of the body. The bottom of the shawl is then finished off with a simple lace edging that can incorporate beads for extra sparkle.

This simple scarf is very easy and quick to make.