Effervescent

Effervescent is an asymmetric triangle brioche shawlette, knit from narrow end to wide end. It features a syncopated brioche edging, and assigned pooling bubbles on the body of the shawlette. The pattern requires two skeins of fingering weight yarn, one of which should be dyed for assigned pooling. You’ll need a 24″ circular needle for working 2-color brioche flat.

Based on much experimentation, I think this pooling pattern works best with a darker Background Color yarn, and a lighter Pooling Color yarn, because the pooling color begins the motif, but doesn’t carry all the way through it. A darker background yarn will keep from taking attention away from the pooling motifs.

The shawl is a right angle triangle, which drapes well.

Your pooling yarn tells you when it’s time to create your assigned pooling bubbles.

I knit my shawlette using A Chick That Knitz Singles Fingering, in Forget Me Not and Glenhaven.

Don’t be intimidated by brioche plus pooling! Assigned pooling works well on many backgrounds such as stockinette stitch, garter stitch, and brioche rib. If you can knit brioche rib, assigned pooling is a fun way to play with it.

This pattern is available on Ravelry and Payhip.

Thanks to tech editor Meaghan Schmaltz, and test knitters Ann Berg, Micaela Langevin, Ashely Meshioye, Lillyvette Montalvo Ostenson, and model Sharon Hsu.

Special thanks to Tammy Pelfrey/A Chick that Knitz, for the beautiful yarn for this design.