Let’s picture yourself on a rainy evening, bored with your current project and looking for something fun and satisfying to knit.

For the sake of this post let’s say you are looking for a shawl with short rows and stripes, made of fingering yarn, and maybe you are also looking for a crescent shape.

Let’s begin to look!

1. Go on Ravelry and choose Pattern and then pattern browser & advanced searchYou will something like this, depending on the filter you have chosen (see next image)
2. Now let’s begin to write shawl in the search box. Choose form the drop-down menu Category: Shawl/Wrap. You will see something like this appearing: more then 41 thousands patterns is still too much!
3. Let’s refine our search looking for short rows: like before, begin to write short row and choose the right attribute from the drop-down menu. Something like this will appear.
4. Let’s keep refining: Stripes
   
5. Let’s choose the yarn weight we want: in my example is fingering.
6. Let’s choose the shape of our shawl: Crescent.
7. 182 patterns sound like a good pool to choose from.If you gon on page 3 you will find my “Bouncing off Clouds”.And on page 4 you will find my “Duomo di Milano”.