Evoluta MKAL!

Design

A semicircular lace shawl with a similar feel to Don’t Panic.

Starting Sep 1, in 6 parts, sent ~ every 5 days.
The KAL thread will continue into October.

The pattern is both charted and written. It can be worked entirely from written directions, or charts with some notes.
WS rows are mostly purl with a bit of knit, but no lacey business.

Sizing

The shawl is designed with one main ending point, and a series of extensions after that point.
For a smaller shawl, you can skip a 40 row chart and jump ahead to the edge.

In heavy lace weight/light fingering, allow:

Main ending, row 200 (end chart 7) = 730m/800y
(If skipping 40 rows/chart 5 = 540/590y)
First extension = 850m/930y
Longest possible 1450m/1600y

Jennifer’s lace weight shawl came out at 696m for the largest possible size, and measures 134 x 67 cm. (Using 46.4g @ 1500m/100g)

Laina’s small lace test (809m per 100g) used 656m at a looser gauge.

Konane’s fingering weight test used 900y for the main ending, 1280y binding off on row 212.

(Note the yardage/weight of the puppy linked yarn above in this project relates to the small size only.) This yarn is called lace, but Shireen describes it as being more a light fingering, so it’s comparable to the Huron Single I’ve used in the other sample (and the Manitoulin Sparkle in Corazona) and all 3 are 20 wpi.
I would use the same needles and yardage for VFA Lux too, as a reference.

Yarn

Lace to fingering, in a solid or gradient.
(Ok, a very, very low key tonal or variegated if you must, but can I suggest this litmus test first - take a photo of the yarn, desaturate it, and if it looks mostly solid you should be ok. If it looks quite mottled, you might want to keep stash diving. It would be a pity to go to all the effort of fancy lace stitches and then have the busyness of the yarn override it.. )

I’ve used lace weight, though the design works well in fingering too.

Choose yarn that will hold a block well. Something slinky like VFA would be lovely. I’ve done mine in slightly grabbier bases to test them out, and am liking the result.

Dates

Sep 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.

Beads

Beads aren’t explicitly included, however there are notes on how to incorporate them if you wish to. (222 beads per wedge +16 beside the border, or 904 for 4 wedges.)

Size -

Stitches - yes, lots of them.
Knit, purl.
Decreases: ssk & k2tog, left leaning, right leaning, and centred double decreases.
Increases: yo, kyok, and other make x number of sts into one stitch.
And one row where you’ll need to make 2 sts from 3 by working a sk2p (double decrease) and then working k1, p1 into the resulting st.

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K: knit
P: purl
K2tog: knit 2 stitches together
SSK: slip 1 knitwise, repeat, knit 2 together through back loops
SK2P: slip 1, knit 2 sts together, 
pass slipped st over (left leaning double decrease)
CDD (s2kp): slip 2 tog knitwise, knit 1, pass slipped sts over 
(central double decrease)
SSKSP: work as for ssk, return this st to left needle, pass next st over, slip to right needle (right leaning double dec)
YO: yarn over (for double yo, work as k1, p1 on WS)
CO: cast on (backward loop)
KYOK: knit, yo, knit into same st
M5: make 5 sts from 1 st: k,yo,k,yo,k
M7: make 7 from 1 st: k,yo,k,yo,k,yo,k
M9: make 9 from 1 st: k,yo,k,yo,k,yo,k,yo,k
2 sts from 3: work as for sk2p, return st to left needle and work k1, p1 into resulting st, decreasing 3 sts to 2

While I’m making notes, 10g = 3500 sts, and 1000 sts = 2.86g/14.3y.