Made in September, 2020
Craft: knitting
Pattern: Nightshift by Andrea Mowry
Yarn: Painted Sky in several different colourways, see notes
Size: n/a
Needles: 5.00mm/US 8
Gauge: 20 stitches x 28 rows = 10cm/4″
Our notes: The ever-present Nightshift. Andrea Mowry has gotten a lot of mileage out of this stitch pattern, and she’s very clever with it. This is (I think) the OG version of the shifting colour stitch, and while lots of folks have had luck making it with solid colours, it is designed to work with a yarn that slowly changes colours. So not a variegated or gradient yarn, but one that “shifts” from colour to colour in a slower manner. It gives the effect of your having used many many different colours. The yarn she wrote it for is a little pricy for some budgets, and we really liked making it with Knitting Fever’s Painted Sky. It’s a nice squishy worsted weight that comes in tons of lovely colours. We used one ball each of:
Pinot Noir (A)
Rose Sorbet (B)
Victorian Mosaic (C)
Amazonas (D)
Changes made to pattern: we didn’t exactly follow as written.
– did the increases as a backwards loop instead of a M1. This is a great substitute for shawls knit in this way because an increase that uses the yarn from the previous row pulls the increase-edge in and causes it to buckle and curl.
Sections went as follows:
AB
AC
AD
BA
BC
BD
CA
CB
CD
AD
Cast off
I did run out of colourway C before finishing the CD section, so I just added the remainder of colour A in place of colour C when I ran out. I then kept going with the AD section until I started to run low, and then cast off. Finished with a 1×1 mosaic instead of the 2×2 as a result. Shawl is quite large enough.
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