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Huge thanks to Vogue Girl Korea who featured my Rodarte-wannabe knitted shawl DIY in the 6-blogger ‘DIY or Die’ editorial of the October edition. The five other bloggers include Cocorosa, Anywho, 4th and Bleeker, Kingdom of Style and Love Maegan – all of whom contributed amazing DIYs that represented the essence of their blogs and styles.

(On receiving copies of the magazine, I carefully undressed it of the Korean envelope (so precious) and dug in straight away. The editorial was so kindly tabbed with a small post-it by HyeMin the editor so it was easy to locate, but then to my frustration I couldn’t find my page anywhere near the bulk of the other bloggers. After flipping over a good few pages of laminated advertisements I found, nestled cosily between pink bra advertisements, that familiar face. AHA. So this is probably why the others didn’t know I was on the same boat.)

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You’ll need: A selection of yarn (Mohair 50%+) with colours and density of own choice, Needle size 15mm, 10mm, 6mm; Tape ruler, knitter’s needle.

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Using the darkest yarn, cast on 60 stitches with the 6mm needle. Knit in stocking stitch 8 rows.

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Occasionally change colours while alternating between 10mm and 15mm needles between rows to create an uneven knit look.

Keep knitting until it reaches a length you desire the shawl to be.


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Bind off work.

Repeat from beginning for the other side.

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Stitch two together with black yarn.

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Tips and caring advices:

  • If you’re an experienced knitter, it’d be best if you could do a tension swatch for the yarn before casting on.
  • For beginners check out this youtube channel for great tutorials. Great place to start learning actually.
  • Alternate between colours but also thickness of yarns. I just stuck to mohair but you could always bring in different types of yarns like acrylic or other wool blends to create texture.
  • Hand wash only, dry flat.
Posted: October 11, 2009
Category: Do It Yasself, Feature