Do you want to knit an eye-catcher? Or do you have a crazy color combination in mind just waiting to jump onto your needles? Then Iszara might be just the thing for you.

Iszara is a striped, semicircular shawl knitted in garter stitch. The stripes are worked using the intarsia technique. If you're unfamiliar with this technique, don't worry, it's not difficult at all! All you have to do is twist the yarns in the middle of each row with each color change. That is, when changing from one color to another, you place the new working yarn under the old working yarn to tuck the old working yarn between the new yarn and the knitting, and then pull all the ends tight. Here's how.

Photos: Melanie Berg