The original shawl is designed to be worked in six colors of fingering weight yarn, with a solid black background, although I recently saw a shawl knit in a worsted weight and was no less impressed.

Spring weather has a sense of humor, which is why I’ve fully leaned in to the cozy-but-breezy knit as my transitional essential. Heavy coats are too much, T-shirts not quite enough—cue the spring knit ...