NOTE: If you purchased a kit from A Verb for Keeping Warm, there’s no need to purchase this mystery, as a code for a free pattern download is included!

Fiberchats and I sat down and talked about the mystery! You can see our conversation here.

The first clue drops 21 April at 10am Pacific time, and that afternoon at 4pm Pacific, I’ll be having a YouTube Live to go over the first clue! Each Friday there will be a YouTube live for the clue released that day!

Clue 1 YouTube live 21 April 4pm Pacific time
Clue 2 YouTube live 28 April 4pm Pacific time
Clue 3 YouTube live 5 May 4pm Pacific time
Clue 4 YouTube live 12 May 4pm Pacific time
Clue 5 YouTube live 19 May 4pm Pacific time

Other useful videos:
Pinhole cast-on
Adding yarn-overs at the beginning of row
How to insert a lifeline
How to fix yarn-overs
Full 2023 mystery playlist

Welcome to my 2023 mystery shawl KAL: Falderal. Falderal is nonsense, frippery, fancy…a less used and more antique spelling than folderol, and that suites my sense of whimsy perfectly, as I hope it does yours!

This is a triangle using two colors of sport or fingering weight yarn, 385 to 438 yards each. The PDF file download is currently a placeholder; the first clue will be released digitally on April 21, 2023. The KAL will have 5 clues total, each one week apart. One year after the KAL is over, your mystery pattern will update to the full pattern.

We will be knitting together in the @Romi’s Studio forum, and I will also be doing YouTube lives and meetups, as I know not everyone can access Ravelry! You will get a full schedule in the time leading up to the first clue drop. The YouTube lives will remain accessible as recordings. I hope you’ll join us in the fun!!!

Hints before the first clue:

• Although Annapurna is listed as sport weight in the Ravelry database, I would say it is on the light side, and knits up like a fingering weight. Either sport or fingering weight will work. Floating and Rumor are fingering weight yarns.

• I am using the Cosmos (light grey-purple with speckles of pink)/Thistle (deep purple with speckles of rust and magenta) colorway and starting with the lighter color.

• Lightly speckled, tonal, or solid yarns will show the patterning best; the more variegated the yarn is, the less the patterning will show

• Remember: do not substitute a yarn of which you have less than 385 yards.

I can’t wait to knit with you all! xox

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