The Mystery Knit-A-Long that is not dead yet!

I seek the finest and silliest knitters to join me in a this quest for the grail! You have proven yourself worthy--Will you join us? There will be coconuts! Unladen swallows! And you must bring us….a SHRUBBERY!
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This Very Silly MKAL is for a shawl, and I’ll go ahead and tell you that will end up being rectangular with a fun construction. It’s a “festival of stitches” sort of project that will feature several different stitch patterns, many of which will be repeated in the project, and some that make only a cameo appearance (Zoot would understand).

There will be some texture, a bit of lace, and colorwork that involves slipping stitches (but no stranded colorwork or brioche). You’ll need to do general increases decreases, slip stitches, locate shurbberies….but there will be a few video tutorials for a few unusual or unfamiliar stitches. Most stitch patterns won’t require a chart, but for those that do, there will also be line by line written directions.

Corrections and Current updates

• In the glossary description of the møøse stitch, you need to work a “knit 1” between drawing the 4th and 5th loops. This is corrected in Clue 2 pdf v1.3, and in Clue 3 v 1.1 which are both available in your library.

On row 3 of ‘I Shall Taunt You a Second Time,“ it previously read “k3, k2tog, sl13wyib…” In case it isn’t clear this is a typo (since you’ve worked this st a few times at this point int the pattern), it should be sl3wyib (not sl13). This typo is now corrected in Clue 2 v1.2

The project is a collaboration with Miss Babs Yarn (see the GORGEOUS KITS here), but it is open to all dyers and LYSs wanting to offer kits. My yarn specs are based on Babs’ Yummy 2-ply yarn (400 yds/110 g skeins) and are as follows:

• 2 full skeins of a Main Color (I’m currently using a creamy natural tone). The MC will serve as a sort of canvas which lets the remaining colors shine. It can be slightly speckled, but I wouldn’t recommend it be any busier than that. Variegated is right out. You’ll need most of these 2 skeins for the project, so be sure to have 2 full skeins, not partials.
• 6 mini skeins of various colors, ~35 grams each (basically each is 1/3rd of a full skein). These colors can be in a gradient or not--any combination works so long as each has at least a bit of contrast with the Main Color. The set I’m currently using varies from high contrast to low and all semi-solids, but these can have speckles and some light variegation. It’s all good.
• Instead of the mini-skeins, you can easily substitute 2 full size skeins, in 2 different colors. This way, kits can be 2 skeins of the MC, 1 skein of CC1, 1 skein of CC2. CC1 and CC2 don’t have to contrast with each other because they won’t be worked together in the project that way. these can be speckled or even highly variegated--just make sure they contrast with the MC enough to see it in things like colorwork.

TIMING
The mkal will be open for preorders on April 1st (just because). At that point, you’ll be able to download the Planning Sheet with yarn requirements and general banter about Very Silly things.
The first Clue will be released on April 19th at noon EDT!
Remaining clues will be on each following Monday (also at noon EDT…please. I can’t release it at noon in every time zone):
Clue 2: April 26th
Clue 3: May 3rd
Clue 4: May 10th
Clue 5: May 17th