What is a Pi shawl?

In knitting, a pi shawl is a circle-shaped shawl, but not a circular shawl. The thing that sets pi shawls apart from other circular shawls: the rate of increase (more on that later).

What is a half pi shawl?

Half pi’s are a modification of the pi shawl – a construction method with some very smart math introduced by Elizabeth Zimmermann. They’re worked from the centre-out, beginning with a small number of stitches in the round.

How much yarn do I need for a pi shawl?

Summary: A circular shawl based the geometry of Pi–the relationship between a circle’s circumference and its radius containing six shaping rounds. MATERIALS: 3-4 4oz wheels single-ply Icelandic wool. 10-12 oz Shetland wool, or approximate amount of any yarn which works up at above GAUGE.