Pluck Up by Megan Gonzalez

Pluck Up

Knitting
August 2024
The Plucky Knitter Legacy DK
DK (11 wpi) ?
12 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
in garter stitch (after blocking)
US 7 - 4.5 mm
325 - 660 yards (297 - 604 m)
Wingspan: 69 (99)”/175 (250) cm; Depth: 10 (18.5)”/25 (47) cm
English
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Pluck Up is the perfect shawl with which to pluck up your courage and play! This is one of those fabulous patterns that you can use any weight yarn, combine any colors, and basically do anything you want to make it perfectly you.

Want to use up scraps, make a marled fade, or break up a gradient with stripes? The stage is yours.

This simple & relaxing pattern not only soooo squishy, it’s also the perfect playground for your to have all the fun and make it the kind of shawl that prompts your friends to say “That’s so YOU.”

Size
Wingspan: 69 (99)”/175 (250) cm
Depth: 10 (18.5)”/25 (47) cm

Yarn
2 colors of a DK weight yarn

MC - 260 (520) yds/238 (476) m
CC - 65 (140) yds/60 (128) m (+ optional 5 yds/4.5 m for tassels)

Recommended Yarn
Plucky Knitter’s Legacy DK (100% Non-Superwash Shaniko Wool) 260 yds/238 m; 100 g - 1 (2) skeins in MC & 1 skein in CC

Magenta Sample: Beets Me (MC) & 1 skein in Ochre (CC)
Blue Sample: Bohemian Blue (MC) & 1 skein in Ochre (CC)

Needles & Notions
US 7/4.50 mm – 24”/60 cm circulars (or needles needed to obtain gauge!)
Stitch markers
Tapestry needle

Techniques to Indulge
Garter Stitch
Stripes
Simple increases
(+ a super easy trick to make a stretchy edge)