In 2022 I purchased a winter solstice kit from Cosy Posy Yarns. It consisted of a 100 gram skein of their ‘Soft & Cosy’ yarn and 20 mini-skeins (20 grams each). I decided to challenge myself to design a shawl using the yarn and to knit the yarn in the order set by the dyer.

The shawl is designed to knit with both solstice kits (20 mini-skeins) and advent kits (24 mini-skeins). Each stripe uses 72 (86) yards/66 (79) meters of yarn so it is also a great stash busting project.

Skills Required:

• Working lace
• Working stripes
• Working with charts and/or written instructions

Finished size (blocked): Solstice Shawl (Advent Shawl)
24 (29)” / 61 (74) cm wide by 85 (101)”/216 (256) cm long

Other Tools:

• Stitch markers - 6 (7)
• Tapestry needle

Yarn: 1,840 (2,574) yards/1,682 (2,353) meters of a fingering weight yarn that knits up to 7-7.5 sts/inch.

Main Colour: 400 (500) yards/366 (457) meters
Contrasting Colours: 1,440 (2,074) yards/1317 (1,896) meters, each stripe uses 72 (86) yards/66 (79) meters

Shown In:

Solstice version (20 main stripes), shown in:
Main Colour: Cosy Posy Yarn Co. ‘Soft && Cosy’, (80% merino, 20% nylon; 3.53 oz/100 grams; 400 yards/366 meters per skein). 1 skein of Darkest.

Contrasting Colours: Cosy Posy Yarn Co. ‘Soft & Cosy’, (80% merino, 20% nylon; 0.71 oz/20 grams; 80 yards/73 meters per skein). Winter Solstice kit (2022), 20 colours.

Advent version (24 main stripes), shown in:
Main Colour: Indigodragonfly ‘MerGoat Sock’, (80% wool, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon; 4.06 oz/115 grams; 400 yards/366 meters per skein). I Made That Tape Special For Today, 2 skeins

Contrasting Colours: Indigodragonfly ‘MerGoat Sock Mini’, (80% wool, 10% cashmere, 10% nylon; 1.76 oz/50 grams; 184 yards/168 meters per skein). 12 colours, each used twice.

Solstice version (20 main stripes), shown in:
Main Colour: Koigu ‘Painter’s Palette Premium Merino (KPPPM)’ (100% merino; 1.76 oz/50 grams; 175 yards/160 meters per skein). 2 skeins, P493.

Contrasting Colours: Koigu ‘Pencil Box Fingering’, (100% merino; 8.82 ounces/250 grams; 870 yards/796 meters per box). 2 pencil boxes, one each of Little angel and Secret garden.

Errata:
05-11-23: There is a line missing in the pattern for the second border before the bind-off. “Repeat the Border section once.”

This has been corrected in the PDF.