Rust Shawl in Rowan Kidsilk Haze - Downloadable PDF

Rust Shawl in Rowan Kidsilk Haze – Knitting Pattern Summary

The Rust Shawl is a beautifully crafted knitted shawl or wrap designed by Sharon Miller and published by Rowan. Available as a downloadable PDF, this pattern is rated advanced beginner and showcases the delicate, halo-rich qualities of Rowan Kidsilk Haze yarn worked in a rich, multi-tonal colorway palette. The finished piece belongs to the shawls and wraps category, making it an elegant accessory suitable for layering over eveningwear or adding warmth and texture to everyday outfits.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a single shawl or wrap — the Rust Shawl — worked in a lace-weight yarn across a wide, sweeping construction. The design makes striking use of multiple coordinating shades of Rowan Kidsilk Haze, combining them in sequence and sometimes held together double to create depth, dimension, and tonal richness throughout the fabric.

Materials Required

Yarn

The pattern calls exclusively for Rowan Kidsilk Haze, a luxurious lace weight yarn celebrated for its gossamer mohair halo and silky sheen. Five colorways are used across the project:

• Yarn A – Bark 674: 2 x 25gm balls
• Yarn B – Liqueur 595: 2 x 25gm balls
• Yarn C – Scarlett 715: 2 x 25gm balls
• Yarn D – Drab 611: 1 x 25gm ball
• Yarn E – Cream 634: 1 x 25gm ball

The palette blends warm earthy tones — bark, drab, and scarlett — with the contrast of cream and the depth of liqueur, creating the characteristic rust-inspired color story the shawl is named for. Notably, certain rows call for two strands of different colorways held together simultaneously, which enriches the color blending and adds subtle weight and body to the otherwise delicate lace fabric.

Needles

• 5mm (no. 6 / US 8) circular needle, at least 150 cm long

The use of a long circular needle is essential for accommodating the full width of the shawl as stitches accumulate across the rows. Despite the needle size being relatively large for a lace weight yarn, this is intentional — working Rowan Kidsilk Haze on larger needles opens up the fabric and allows the lace motifs to bloom and the mohair halo to express itself fully.

Techniques Used

The Rust Shawl employs a range of knitting techniques that, while accessible to an advanced beginner, introduce some satisfying complexity through its lace and colorwork construction:

• Striped colorwork: Yarns A through E are introduced in a structured sequence across rows, requiring the knitter to join and carry multiple colors throughout the project.
• Holding two strands together: Certain rows specify working with one strand each of two different yarn colors held together, creating a blended, marled effect unique to those sections of the shawl.
• Yarn round needle (yrn): Used repeatedly to create deliberate yarn-over increases that form the openwork lace structure central to the design's aesthetic.
• Dropped stitch technique: A distinctive and dramatic technique appears in the pattern, where stitches are slipped to the right needle with their corresponding yarn-round-needle loops intentionally dropped, then slipped back to the left needle before being worked together. This creates elongated, gathered lace clusters.
• K15tog (knitting 15 stitches together): An advanced decrease used in conjunction with the dropped stitch technique to gather multiple loops into a single stitch, producing a bold, sculptural lace repeat.
• K2tog and K2tog tbl: Standard right-leaning and left-