The perfect pattern for 2 to 3 skeins of your favorite stripy sock yarn.

Inspired by a shawl worn in the television series here in Germany with the same name, Cherité is a slight crescent, garter stitch shaped shawl knitted from one end to the other. The shawl is knit with increases until half of the yarn is worked and then with decreases until the other end. The ruffles are made with short rows and are worked together with the main shawl. Knitting from one end to the other allows you to use any yarn and needle size you like. Just work until half of the yarn is left and begin your decreases. A fairly tight gauge will insure to give those ruffles more ruffle.

Needles: US 2.5/3.0mm.

Yarn: Any amount of fingering weight sock yarn. The striped sample was knit with 3 skeins of neon stripy sock yarn that glows in black light, and the one color version was knit with a little less than 3 skeins of merino sock yarn in the color Bordeaux.

Samples made with:
3 skeins (1200.0 meters /1312.3 yards), 100 grams each of Nicole C. Méndez Soft Sock in the color Disco.
2.6 skeins (1038.9 meters/1136.2 yards), 260 grams of Nicole C. Méndez Merino in the color Bordeaux (discontinued).

Gauge: approximately 23 sts/4 inches in garter stitch after blocking. Gauge is not important for this project, you will increase until you have knit just below half of the yarn amount and then decrease until you are done which will mean no left overs, but you will want a fairly tight gauge to give the ruffles more ruffle.