I knit the green version of this shawl last winter. I’d been knitting up a pattern that didn’t work out – I ran out of yarn before the border, and didn’t love it anyway – so I frogged all 750m. Then I was annoyed, so I just started to knit, making up a pattern as I went. I really liked the result – here it is:

The yarn is Fleece Artist Nyoni, which I like a lot. It has a bit of mohair in it – goat mohair – so is springy, and the colours are gorgeous.

Things didn’t go any further until I wore it – and someone asked me about the pattern. Oh. I couldn’t find my notes – at least none that were very coherent – so I sat down with graph paper to reverse-engineer the pattern. It was easier to make it up as I went than to figure out later what I’d done! Needless to say, I wasn’t enormously confident in my instructions. I hit the stash, found this blue sock yarn, and knit the shawl again, following my instructions.

A good thing too, as there were a few mistakes. I knit a second version in garter stitch, while the first was in stockinette. Same pattern instructions – the only difference is whether you knit or purl the wrong side rows. The garter stitch one came out a bit smaller, a combination of smaller needles and the tendency of garter to pull together. I also added some stitches into the mesh bit in the middle of the shawl – it’s a bit tight on the green version – and added beads to the blue one. You can see the blue version and the beads in a detail shot posted on Ravelry with the pattern.

I like them both, though, and the corrected pattern is now available as a free download on Ravelry. What do you think?