Part of the Better Elsewhere Collection, a design for sock yarn that is better used for something other than socks.

Why waste those colours you fell in love with on the insides of your shoes? Tame that wild variegation in a triangle shawl with a little-known garter stitch variation and enjoy all that colour as a frame for your face, or a way to brighten up your dark winter coat.

For a variegated yarn with particularly high contrast colour changes, this top-down triangle shawl keeps it simple with garter and a garter-esque openwork pattern I found hidden in the back of one of the later Barbara G. Walker volumes, the Tranquility stitch.

It features an unusual maneuver that’s a little hard to describe, but is absolutely worth it for an unexpected and clever result. It looks a bit more like crochet than knitting, and chances are you’ve never seen it before.

This particular yarn has only two colours, with fast and lively colour changes, but it would work just as well with a yarn with many more colours – or even a semi-solid.