This is the shawl for the Mondschaf Adventskalender 2022.

You will need 19 colors (or any odd number) for this striped shawl, each color between 70 and 85 meters, depending on your individual gauge. In case you are using the original Mondschaf Pegasus Adventskalender 2022 kit, the colors will appear in the order in which you will need them for the first half of the shawl. Putting them away in exactly this order will help when working the second half.

Idea
This advent calendar shawl is quite unusual as it includes not only one fade, but features something I call “a fade within a fade”: The big stripes are fading out from the beginning, while the small stripes in between are starting in the middle of the fade sequence.

It starts with the darker colors for the big stripes, as December is the darkest month of the year. Then, at winter solstice, there is a turning point and the days will gradually become longer and lighter. The Seed Stitch squares (“windows”) used in the pattern are designed to prevent the shawl from rolling and, at the same time, the knitter from getting bored. They also represent the doors in the traditional German “Adventskalender”.

Sample yarn(s)
For my sample, I have used the Mondschaf Pegasus Adventskalender 2022 kit (425m/ 100g = 85m/ 20g).
A big thank you to dasmondschaf for the nice coorperation!
In case you are thinking about buying some Mondschaf Pegasus Minis, ask Sabrina for a coupon code to get the pattern for free.

My secret test knitter has used her own Ruppert Garne Soft Lamb, see 2nd set of photos.

Color sequence
You will need 19 colors (or any odd number) which can be arranged in a “fade” (see image with sequence F1 to F19), but you will use them in the sequence show in the image with the sequence F1, F11, F2, etc. (i.e. you will work the “fade within a fade” color sequence twice).

Size and yarn usage
With 19 big and 19 small stripes, the overall length of the shawl will be approx. 19x36 = 684 rows (approx. 180cm on my sample). The big stripes will have a height of 27 rows (approx. 7 cm on my sample) and the small stripes will have 9 rows (approx. 2,3cm). The width is 131 sts = approx. 45cm on my sample. I have used a bit more than 60m per color = approx. 1200m overall.

The gauge of my sample shawl is 28 sts x 39 rows, but getting gauge is not essential.