Description

The shawl that Susanne Sommers designed for our Advent Calendar 2024 is knitted sideways, from one tip to one short side of the triangle, with increases along one edge. The edge with increases is the top edge of the shawl. It is knitted in alternating sections of Garter stitch, with contrasting bobbles in the middle, and Brioche stripes. For each Brioche stripe, the colors are seemingly randomly combined, creating new color combinations. Each stripe is knitted in two-color Brioche or syncopated two-color Brioche, creating not only a change in color but also a textural break.

Size:

211 cm/83 inch length; 101 cm/49 ¾ inch height at center

Yarn:

Fingering weight yarn (about 360-450 m/395-492 yds per 100 g) in one main color and 13 contrasting colors

1 Main Color (MC): A Stormy Blend  (70% Brogna wool/30% Italian alpaca, 225 m/246 yd per 50 g) in Polvere (undyed gray-brown), Nebbia

(undyed light gray) or Ombra (undyed gray); shown in Polvere

13 Contrasting Colors (CC): A Chick Blend (60% Abruzzese wool/20% Mohair/20% Alpaca, 90 m/98 yd per 20 g mini skeins) in the colorways:

Pan di zenzero (mustard – CC1), 

Finferli (yellow – CC2), 

Agata (peach – CC3), 

Foschia (powder pink – CC4),

Panforte (red-brown – CC5), 

Elleboro (gray-pink – CC6), 

Martora (gray-purple – CC7), 

Pervinca (lilac – CC8),

Carta da zucchero (blue – CC9), 

Brina (light blue – CC10), 

Fangorn (dark green – CC11), 

Larice (gray-green – CC12), 

Achillea (cream speckled – CC13)

Yardage:

1845 m/2012 yd in total:

675 m/738 yd/3 skeins of the main color and 90 m/98 yd/1 mini skein each of the 13 contrasting colors

Gauge:

19 sts / 24 rows = 10 cm / 4" in Brioche stitch (after blocking)

19 sts / 48 rows = 10 cm / 4" in Garter stitch (after blocking)

Needles:

US 4/3.5 mm circular needles (or size needed to obtain gauge and optimal drape), 80-100 cm / 32-40“ long;

optional: DPNs in same size for the beginning