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Drachenfels monochrome shawl

I made this for Me

Created by: Anna Dominoes

  • Project Details

    About

    I loved the graphic stripes of this shawl pattern, and chose to knit it in a bold monochrome. It took 18 months to complete, in between many other projects - most of the work was done on two week-long holidays and one long weekend. Nearly all of it is garter stitch so the sort of thing you can knit while also doing something else (like listening to podcasts on the beach). However, there are subtle instructions you need to keep your eye on. I wrote out a meticulous row planner of what colour for each row and which increase/decrease pattern to follow per row, and ticked off as I went. This was invaluable especially to help me pick up the work again between breaks. The shawl ends up with 260 stitches on the last row, from a cast on of just 6, increasing at a rate of 4 stitches per 6 rows. As you get to the end you will end up doing only about 5 or 6 rows an hour unless you are very speedy - be warned it is a big commitment!

    Pattern

    Drachenfels

    Measurements

    Notes: I went slightly off-piste with some of the stripe arrangements in order to make the best use of the yarn. Colour 1 (in my case black) ran out very quickly. Colour 3 (grey) was about right and I used up 3 balls exactly by keeping my eye on how much was used per row and adjusting the number of rows accordingly (there is a long section using just this colour). I was left with half a ball of colour 2 (cream). I added an extra row of the cream dots right at the end so that I had 3 full repeats of the dot-dot-stripe pattern. I also added an extra row of black at the end of the striped section to break up the cream and grey a bit. I kept both balls of colour attached doing the stripes so I didn't have a load of ends to weave in. Finally, I used the long cast on tail to pick up the 6 cast on stitches and knit 'backwards' several rows, reducing down to 2 before casting off. This gave the shawl a pointed end, as I decided I didn't like the blunt corner.

    Tags

    • Scarves
    • Shawls
    • Women

    Craft

    Knitting

    Skill Level

    Intermediate

    Status

    Complete
    Started on: Jul 20, 2015 Finished on: Jan 11, 2017

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