CANADA DAY SPECIAL: Buy into this mystery knitalong while it is still Canada Day somewhere in Canada and you can join for half price. Just enter coupon code JULY1HALF during checkout sometime between 00:01 (Newfoundland Time) and 23:59 (Pacific Time) on July 1 to receive the discount. (That’s July 1, 10:31 pm to July 2, 2:59 am in Eastern time, where I live.)

Download the introductory package now for general information about the knitalong. Three pattern clues for this lace shawl will be released on August 1, 15 and 29, giving you the perfect schedule for lazy summer knitting when you might want to work on only a few rows before heading out to sway in the hammock or float on the lake. (Apologies to those who live in the southern hemisphere--you are welcome to join us with some Lazy Winter Knitting!)

Originally designed for a single 100 g skein of wool sock yarn, you might consider knitting this shawl in cellulose fibres like cotton or bamboo. I also made a shawl with three 50 g balls of fingering weight yarn and created a colour-blocked shawl, using a different colour for each of the three clues. As well as specific instructions for the samples I knit, more general instructions in the clues will help you make the most of the yarn you have chosen.

This is a lace shawl, so you will probably want to knit at a looser gauge than what is recommended on the yarn band. Swatch with needles of different sizes until you achieve a fabric you like. Although all three samples were knit with fingering weight yarn, and on the same 4.0 mm needles, the gauge is not the same across the shawls. Achieving exact tension as stated in the introductory package is not necessary for the successful completion of this project; it is more important that you create a fabric you like.