One more Stripe

One more Stripe Shawl by Melanie Berg

What is Being Made

One more Stripe is a striped knit shawl designed by Melanie Berg. This project celebrates the addictive nature of knitting, with the designer creating stripe after stripe to explore beautiful color combinations and harmonious yarn interplay. The shawl grows progressively on the needles, offering a satisfying knitting experience that encourages continued work until completion.

Craft and Project Type

This is a knitting project classified as intermediate difficulty. The shawl format makes it an ideal project for knitters who enjoy watching their work develop gradually while experimenting with color transitions and stripe patterns.

Techniques Used

The pattern employs specialized knitting techniques to create its distinctive structure:

• Short rows – used to shape the shawl and create depth in the fabric
• Double stitch – a technique executed by slipping one stitch purlwise with yarn in front, then pulling yarn over the needle to the back to position it correctly for the next knit stitch. This method adds texture and visual interest to the striped design

Stitches and Construction

The pattern utilizes fundamental knit stitches combined with the specialized double stitch technique mentioned above. The integration of short rows with these stitches creates the shawl's characteristic shape and drape.

Yarn and Materials

This shawl is worked in sport weight yarn using two coordinating yarns from WalkCollection:

• WalkCollection Merino Sport (100% Merino wool; 100 g / 356 yards [325 meters]) – 2 skeins in the colorway "Arctic Wolf" (main color), totaling 189 g / 673 yards [615 meters]. This yarn is noted for its excellent drape and beautiful qualities as a newly developed fiber
• WalkCollection Tough Sock Mini Set – used as a contrasting color element to add the perfect amount of color variation to the striped pattern

Knitters will need appropriate needles for sport weight yarn to complete this project. The combination of these two WalkCollection yarns creates harmonious color play throughout the finished shawl.