Kits for Geograndient MKAL by Stephen West

It will be the 14th Westknits Mystery Shawl Knit Along (MKAL)! 

This year’s shawl will be a geometric explosion of color using a gradient of four colors.

A guide of this year’s mystery shawl with video tutorials throughout October is also included.

• Clue 1 - Thursday, October 5 
• Clue 2 - Thursday, October 12 
• Clue 3 - Thursday, October 19 
• Clue 4 - Thursday, October 26

You can buy the pattern HERE. It will go on sale September 2 at 16:00 Amsterdam time.

The Ravelry discussion group is HERE.

Size

Geogradient Shawl will be a large shawl, similar in size to Starflake or Winter Lights Shawl. It won’t be quite as massive as some previous MKAL shawls that used 5 colors like Texture time or Slipstravaganza. There will be an option at the end of the MKAL to customize the size as well if you have extra yarn to make the shawl larger or if you want to stop a bit early for a smaller shawl.

Yarn
Fingering weight

This year’s shawl features a gradient of 4 colors of fingering weight yarn, 100g of each color.

Color A - lightest color
Color B - a little bit darker than A
Color C - a little bit darker than B and lighter than D
Color D - darkest color

Yardage
Approximately 1520yds / 1388m total
Color A - 380yds / 347m
Color B - 380yds / 347m
Color C - 380yds / 347m
Color D - 380yds / 347m

Needles
US 4 / 3.5mm circular in 40″ / 100cm length or size needed to obtain gauge
1 spare circular needle the same size or smaller for holding sts OR waste yarn.

Notions
4 stitch markers, tapestry needle

Gauge
24 sts & 48 rows = 4″ / 10cm in garter stitch before blocking

Try to get close to the recommended stitch gauge to ensure you don’t run out of yarn. A similar stitch gauge is more important than getting an exact row gauge.

Garter Stitch Swatch
If you would like to see how your colors interact, cast on 30 stitches and knit some colorful stripes, knitting on the right side and wrong side for garter stitch.

They recommend striping the colors by knitting 8 rows of each color, resulting in 4 garter ridges for each stripe like this…

Knit 8 rows with color A.
Knit 8 rows with color B.
Knit 8 rows with color C.
Knit 8 rows with color D.

Repeat those stripes again to see your A, B, C, D striping effect and check your stitch gauge.