Entrechat (for fingering weight)

This is the fingering weight version of my worsted-weight Entrechat shrug pattern. A DK weight version is also available here. A matching fingering weight bonnet is available here.

Adorable seamless shrug that knits up in no time and uses very little yarn… Features a fun and easy textured pattern. Both the heartwarmer style and the textured stitch made me think of the “entrechat,” a ballet jump where the legs cross each other mid-air in a flutter.

CONSTRUCTION: This shrug is knit from the back neck and shoulders to the underarms. The raglan cap sleeves are then bound off and the back stitches are worked together with stitches picked up along each front raglan (diagonal edge) to form the back and fronts of the body in one piece.

SKILLS REQUIRED: casting-on, knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing, picking up stitches, yarn over, binding off.

Sample is knit in The Uncommon Thread Merino Fingering (shade Chrome), an aletrnative is given below.