Mint Affogato

I realize this has become a habit for me, but once I finished my Vanilla Affogato tee, I wanted more time with the combination of yarn and pattern, and I just happened to have a bit more Tibetan Cloud in stash! So I cast on...

The Mint Affogato Shawl features the same lace as the tee, worked in panel at the center of a garter stitch background.

The contrast between the delicate lace panel at center and the bold garter looks great when it's bunched up or partially hidden in a jacket, and the added texture along the sides brings it all home for me.

The Tibetan Cloud yarn is a fantastic choice for next-to-skin knitting, and it has a light and airy quality on the needles that makes working the fiber a joy. It's warm and soft and hasn't pilled a bit, even though l've been wearing these a bunch - next to both denim and wool. If substituting, you want a soft fiber as well, in a round sport or DK weight yarn. Your fiber should be even enough to show off the textures here. Choose a mostly solid colorway (or a subtle speckle) that won't compete with the detail of the design.

I created two sizes for the pattern, so you can use either 1 or 2 skeins of mYak's stunning Tibetan Cloud yarn.

The smaller size is a little more like a scarf, but offers the delicacy and shaped edges of a shawl. It's easily tucked into a jacket or coat, and it won't completely hide what you are wearing underneath. It's wide and long enough to provide actual warmth around your neck without extra fabric.

The larger size can be styled more like a shawl. This one provides that cozy, doubled squish when it's wrapped over itself or doubled around your neck, and it can fill up the space in your open jacket beautifully.

Mint Affogato is worked tip to tip, with shaping hidden in the side detail between the two knit columns. The width and length of your shawl is easily modified by adjusting this shaping, or you can leave the tips as they are and adjust the length only by working the center section as needed for a longer or shorter wrap. Notes are in the pattern on how to do this.

Lace instructions are both charted and written.

This is an intermediate level knit. Many rows are written out completely, but once the lace pattern is established there are sections of knitting that are explained, and then repeated as noted. During these sections, you will need to keep track of your shaping and edge detail while following the chart at center.

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