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Calico is a light and airy triangle shawl reminiscent of your favorite flower print dress. I designed it to be wide enough to wrap and drape nicely while only needing two skeins of fingering weight yarn. It’s the fourth in a series of projects using the concept of Assigned Pooling. Assigned Pooling occurs when a change in stitch and texture is assigned to changes in color within a skein of variegated yarn. In this case, simple Stockinette Stitch is assigned to the main color to create a backdrop for the floret cluster stitch assigned to the accent color.

Yarn​​ 2 skeins of Barker Wool Solo Fingering, (100% Superwash Fine Merino Wool) in the colorway Wild Violet or approximately 850 yards of variegated fingering weight yarn dyed for use with Assigned Pooling.
Find Wild Violet and other AP skeins under the House Collection tab above.

Finished Measurements 76” wide x 26” deep after blocking.

Needles US size 5 (3.75 mm)
Gauge 24 STS x 32 rows = 4” x 4” in Stockinette ST

When choosing a variegated yarn that will work for Calico, look for sections of accent color that run about ¼ to ⅓ of the total length of the hank. High contrast, whether in value, (light and dark), or in complement, (opposites on the color wheel), will have a higher impact. Simple combinations of two or three colors within a skein will make your texture stitches more noticeable. Lower contrast combinations and skeins with shorter, random color repeats and speckling will make it more difficult for the texture pattern to stand out.