I saw a shrug done something like this in a pattern book years ago. Recently l ended up with 750 yards each of tomato red "Angora Ninety" and Kidsilk Haze in #606, Candy Girl, so I double-stranded them to knit this easy, shaped shrug. You don't need to be too exact about it. Circular needle size 7, 16" and 40". Yardage needed: approximately 600 yards each of your two yarns. Holding yarns together, cast on 40 stitches. Place marker, join. Work 4 rows of garter stitch (you will have to purl on the alternate rows since you are knitting in the round). Then switch to stockinette (knit every row). Increase 1 stitch each side of marker every 4th row until the sleeve is $14^{\prime\prime}$ long orthereabouts. On next row, count your total number of stitches & divide by 4. Knit around, placing markers so that your sleeve is divided into four parts. Write down the number of stitches between markers so you don't forget it later.We'll call thisX. On next row, knit from beginning of row to first marker. Bind off all stitches from first marker to third marker. Knit from 3rd marker to end of row. This ensures that your sleeve increases willbe at the bottom of the shrug when worn, instead of on the side of the arm facing the world. For the back of the shrug, work back and forth in stockinette. Work even until the back is as wide as you need it (I did $24^{\prime\prime}$ just to be safe; this was idiotic, because it's HUGE - you should knit to match your shoulder-toshoulder measurement). Next Ws row: purl all stitches, then cast on X stitches as above. Turn, knit across all stitches, cast on X stitches. Place marker here, join. The rest is easy; you're just decreasing the sleeve stitches down to the cuff. Every 4th row, dec 1 st each side of marker until you get down to 40 stitches. Work 4 rows of garter stitch and bind off. For the edging, use your longer needle and start at the back center of neck, pick up every stitch around the back, the raw edge of the sleeve, the bottom of the back, and the raw edge of the other sleeve. Work in garter stitch and work at least one inch before binding off. By picking up every stitch, instead of an even distribution, your edging will have a bit of a ruffly flutter. Bind off and weave in all ends. (I did mine in stockinette, and of course it's curling backwards like mad, so everyone looking at me sees the wrong side of the fabric.) The nice thing about this combo of yarns is that the fuzziness hides a multitude of sins, so you can just use Russian joins when you need to change yarn balls, and no one will see it, and then you have fewer ends to weave in, plus you get more mileage out of your yarn.
