Behind The Pattern KAL with The Loom Shed!

I'm super-excited to team up with Liz and Louise from The Loom Shed for a "Behind the Pattern" Knit-A-Long (KAL)! Join us in January on zoom to knit my Merrow Berries Shawl over four 1 hour sessions. At the start of each session I'll be talking about the design decisions "behind the pattern" and I'm really looking forward to interesting discussions about topics such as yarn and colour choices and shawl shaping!

This KAL is the perfect opportunity to use 4ply yarns from your stash, including sock yarn and mini-skeins. This can be as one ball/ skein or as smaller amounts of yarn as long as the total meterage is a minimum of 380m/415yds.

You may wish to make your final yarn choice and colour order after session 1 when I'll describe how I customised and extended my shawl to a larger size using multiple mini-skein shades.

Here's a little bit more about the shawl pattern. The Merrow Berries triangular shawl is inspired by branches and berries in the rain. The shawl is knitted as a long right-angled triangle with a series of stitch patterns that are gradually extended as the shawl grows. The shawl is worked as a right angled triangle, knitted from tip to wide cast off. The outer shawl edges are knitted in garter stitch, with the cast off edge worked in a picot pattern. The stitch pattern begins with a wrap stitch, which is knitted by drawing a loop of yarn through from the back of the work to the front, creating a small diagonal knitted line. In the second pattern section, this is extended with a large double-eyelet. The third pattern section includes textured garter stitch rows.

Booking is now open on The Loom Shed website and I hope to see you in January!