Welcome to another mystery shawl knit-a-long (Duchess MKAL 2021 Spring Edition)!

This year’s first Mystery Knit-along 2021 (Duchess MKAL 2021 Spring Edition) lasts 19 weeks which means we will have our gorgeous rectangular shawls done by summer. This shawl has 4 different patterns + sides. Also, we will add some simple cables (do not panic – we can knit anything 2 rows a day; well, actually 4 rows a day, but that’s not bad either).

We will work over 199 stitches and 416 rows. Now, as some parts are mostly just knit stitches, then I will combine those rows into one day as they are easy to work on (otherwise we will be knitting this shawl until the end of the year and I would like to do one more MKAL on fall for Christmas).

As we did last year, new rows are meant to work on weekdays and weekends are for catching up if needed (because life happens as we know).

The most convenient way to receive pattern instructions is with “Knitlet” again (knitting newsletter) and the updates are sent every Friday for the upcoming week. I will also update the blog here and there will be daily updates on the Ravelry thread here.

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You will need:

3,5 mm needles for cast on and bind off
3 mm needles for the main knitting
Edit: there was an error with smaller needle size (2,5 mm) as I used 2.5 mm ones - if you used those then don’t worry, it’s only half the size and should not make that much difference
approx. 200 g of lace weight yarn (100 g / 1400 m)

Abbreviations:

K, k – knit;
P, p – purl;
yo – yarn over;
ssk – slip next 2 stitches knitwise one at a time, pass them back onto the left-hand needle, then knit through back loops together;
k2tog – knit 2 stitches together as one;
sk2p – slip 1 stitch knit-wise, knit 2 stitches together, pass slipped stitch over the last “k2tog”;
N – nupp or bead (I’m doing the 7 loop nupp -> RS: (k1, yo, k1, yo, k1, yo, k1) into 1 stitch; WS: purl those 7 stitches together;
1/1/1 LC – slip 1 stitch to cable needle at front, k2, k1 from cable needle;
1/1/1 RC – slip 2 stitches to cable needle at back, k1, (k2) from cable needle;
1/1 RC – slip 1 stitch to cable needle at back, k1, k1 from cable needle;
1/1 LC – slip 1 stitch to cable needle at front, k1, k1 from cable needle;
1/1 RPC – slip 1 stitch to cable needle at back, k1, p1 from cable needle;
1/1 LPC – slip 1 stitch to cable needle at front, p1, k1 from cable needle;