Craft, Strings and Things

2022 Temperature Shawl (A Recap)

Lily Gould

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

K1FBKnit one, front and backIncreases the stitch by one by knitting through the front and back of the stitch
YoYarn OverIncreases the stitch by one be wrapping the yarn around the needle
K2togKnit two togetherDecreases stitches by one by knitting two stitches together

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Temperature Shawl

This revised temperature shawl increases for half of the project and then decreases for the other half of the project.

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

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