New Shawl Project with Sarah Hatton

In this workshop, Sarah will guide you through a brand new shawl project she has designed for West Yorkshire Spinners. Sarah will explore topics such as yarn weight and fibre content of yarn selections with participants.

Yarn supplies included in the cost of this workshop. 

May 8, 2024 from 1-4 p.m.

This workshop is suitable for those with basic knitting experience.

Project information from Sarah:

The shawl starts as a classic triangular shawl, beginning with a garter stitch tab cast on.
This triangle is then extended from one side of this triangle using a bias strip to create the full length of the shawl.

Elongated triangle shawl
Finished Measurements After Blocking Shawl
Width x Length (approximately)

• cm 34 x 216 along longer edge and 158 along shorter edge
• in 13½ x 85 along longer edge and 62 along shorter edge

Yarn needed:
3 Skeins of West Yorkshire Spinners The Croft DK, but can be completed with an Aran weight as well.

Equipment needed:
• One pair 4mm (UK8/US6) knitting needles
• One 4mm (UK8/US6) circular needle 60 cm long
• Two stitch markers
• Waste yarn for provisional cast on
• (Depending on which provisional cast on you use you may need a 4mm (UK8/G6) crochet hook

About Sarah:
Sarah was born in St. Albans, England and spent the early part of her life based in Hertfordshire. Taught to knit at the age of five, Sarah has always had a love of textiles and had a passion for dressing up as a child.

Having completed an art foundation course close to home she moved to Yorkshire to complete a degree in Fashion Design at Bretton Hall College, part of the University of Leeds.

Immediately after graduating, Sarah was offered her first job as a designer with a hand knit company. It was here she got to develop her skills in knitting, pattern writing and design. Sarah prides herself on the fact that since graduating she has always worked in the hand knitting industry.

Sarah’s inspiration has a tendency to be around garment shapes and she rarely works in more than one colour yet produces amazing wearable garments that explore and push the boundaries of shape and texture. Sarah is well known for her wearable garment designs with the innovative use of shape and texture.

Sarah has produced many collections for West Yorkshire Spinners including her most recent “The Croft – A Way of Life”, “Fleece – Family Collection”, “Fleece Bluefaced Leiceister DK – Riverside Collection” and “The Croft Aran – Shetland Colours”. You can find her on Instagram as “hattonknits”