This 2022 Temperature Shawl was a monster of a piece that came out in a beautiful design!
This Temperature Shawl was supposed to take a year. It took a bit more than a year given that I got behind on my knitting and things got a little crazy here and there. I wanted to get as much done when I could but I always felt like I was falling farther and farther behind.
But I finally finished it, and this shawl was a beast. It turned into a three hundred and sixty-six stitch nightmare. The project just kept growing bigger and bigger. At one point, the weight of the project caused the circular knitting needles to break.
I used circular knitting needles to help distribute the weight! And while it did help my wrists, it did seem to be too much for the needles. I had to switch to knitting needles that has a longer cable because the project just kept growing and growing and growing.
I definitely feel that I could have made some better decisions. One of my biggest regrets is doing a constant increase over the whole project. What I should have done is increased the stitches for half of the project and then switched to a decrease stitch.
So, in the spirit of that, I decided to rewrite the knitting pattern to reflect the way I would have done it if I were to knit this pattern again.
But even if this temperature shawl is a beast, it is absolutely gorgeous!
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Special STitches
| K1FB | Knit one, front and back | Increases the stitch by one by knitting through the front and back of the stitch |
| Yo | Yarn Over | Increases the stitch by one be wrapping the yarn around the needle |
| K2tog | Knit two together | Decreases stitches by one by knitting two stitches together |
Quick Recipe
Temperature Shawl
Materials
- 10 skeins yarn one for each 10 degrees, or split up as desired
Instructions
Starting the Project
- CO3
- Row 1: Knit all stitches
- Row 2: Knit all stitches
- Rows 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15: Knit until the last two stitches, K1FB , K1
- Rows 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16: Knit until end
Block 1: Dropped Stitch (Inc)
- Row 1: K1, *K1, YO2*, repeat*-* until the last two stitches, K1FB, K1
- Row 2: K1, Purl across dropping YO stitches until the last stitch, K1
Block 2: Garter Stitch One (Inc)
- Rows 1, 3, 5, 7: Knit until the last two stitches, K1FB, K1
- Rows 2, 4, 6: Knit until end
- Row 8: K1, Purl until last stitch, K1
Block 3: Yarn Over Lace (Inc)
- Row 1: K1, *K2tog, YO1*, repeat*-* until the last two stitches, K1FB, K1
- Row 2: K1, Purl until last stitch, K1
- Row 3: K1, *K2tog, YO1*, repeat*-* until the last three stitches, K1, K1FB, K1
- Row 4: K1, Purl until last stitch, K1
- Row 5: K1, *YO1, K2tog*, repeat*-* until the last three stitches, YO1, K3
- Row 6: K1, Purl until last stitch, K1
Block 4: Garter Stitch Two (Inc)
- Rows 1, 3, 5, 7: Knit until the last two stitches, K1FB, K1
- Rows 2, 4, 6, 8: Knit until end
Shawl (Inc)
- Repeat Blocks One through Four until mid-length desire is reached. For a temperature shawl, there should be183 stitches before moving onto the decrease rounds.
- Block 1: Dropped Stitch (Dec)
- Row 1: K1, *K1, YO2*, repeat*-* until the last two stitches, K2tog, K1
- Row 2: K1, Purl across dropping YO stitches until the last stitch, K1
Block 2: Garter Stitch One (Dec)
- Rows 1, 3, 5, 7: Knit until the last two stitches, K2tog, K1
- Rows 2, 4, 6: Knit until end
- Row 8: K1, Purl until last stitch, K1
Block 3: Yarn Over Lace (Dec)
- Row 1: K1, *K2tog, YO1*, repeat*-* until the last two stitches, K2tog, K1
- Row 2: K1, Purl until last stitch, K1
- Row 3: K1, *K2tog, YO1*, repeat*-* until the last three stitches, K1, K2tog, K1
- Row 4: K1, Purl until last stitch, K1
- Row 5: K1, *YO1, K2tog*, repeat*-* until the last two stitches, K2tog, K1
- Row 6: K1, Purl until last stitch, K1
Block 4: Garter Stitch Two (Inc)
- Rows 1, 3, 5, 7: Knit until the last two stitches, K2tog, K1
- Rows 2, 4, 6, 8: Knit until end
Shawl (Dec)
- Repeat Decrease Blocks One through Four until 10 stitches remain on the shawl
Finishing the Project
- Rows 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13: Knit until the last two stitches, K2tog, K1
- Rows 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,14: Knit until End
- Row 15: Knit all stitches
- Row 16: Knit all stitches
- BO3