This shawl starts at the small tip, increasing and decreasing to form an arrow-like shape. Neon Skyline embodies the fun of slip-stitch colourwork through its unusual combination of a single fingering weight yarn and a sports weight yarn.
What's Covered in this Workshop?
This Teachable course goes hand-in-hand with the included written Neon Skyline Shawl knitting pattern, so you'll never be left wondering how to approach a section.
Some of the techniques covered in this course are:
- How to read a colourwork chart
- How to work slip stitch technique
- Tips for working two colours
- Setting up for decreases
- Maintaining tension
- Tips and Fixes
- Step-by-Step construction videos
- Finishing and Blocking
Shop Curated Yarn Kits
With the Neon Skyline Shawl yarn kit, you are spoiled for choice!
Choose from 8 colour combination which include one skein of Life in the Long Grass hand-dyed merino singles, and 4 skeins of Stolen Stitches Nua Sport.
Whichever kit you choose, your shawl will knit up in a wonderful defined pattern with colourwork that really pops.
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What You'll find in the Workshop:
What is Slip Stitch Colourwork?
If you love the idea of colourwork, but the reality of it is intimidating, then slip stitch colourwork is your friend!
With this type of colourwork, you are only ever working a single colour on one row. You create a two colour effect by slipping the second colours on that row. This makes it an ideal place to start exploring colourwork.
The slip stitch colourwork in this pattern is all worked in garter stitch i.e. knitting every row. This is sometimes called 'Mosaic' colourwork due to the beautiful mosaic like effect it creates. In the pattern I have added small stripes of colourwork which are completely charted and written, so you can pick your favourite way of working.
Want to learn more about Neon Skyline?
Press play on this video to watch Carol explain the pattern construction along
with some tips and techniques you'll find inside this workshop:
PATTERN DETAILS
SIZES
One Size
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Width: 57” / 145 cm
Depth: 42” / 106.5 cm
YARN
C1: Stolen Stitches 'Nua' (60% Merino, 20% Yak, 20% Linen; 153 yds / 140 m per 1.76 oz / 50 g); colour: Frong on the Wall (9802); 4 skeins
C2: Life in the Long Grass 'Singles' (100% superwash Merino, 400 yds / 366 m per 3.53 oz / 100 g); Colour; Chirp; 1 skein.
Approx Yardage: C1: 588 yds / 538 m, C2: 400 yds / 366m
NEEDLES & NOTIONS
US size 6 / 4 mm circular needle, 32” / 80 cm long
Always use a needle size that gives you the gauge listed, as every knitter’s gauge is unique.
Tapestry needle, lockable marker.
GAUGE:
18 sts and 40 rows = 4″ / 10cm in Garter St blocked
20 sts and 52 rows = 4" / 10cm in Mosaic St blocked
Meet your Teacher
Carol trained initially as a textile artist and then as a structural engineer. While both of these backgrounds are very different the influences can be seen in her design work which is well-shaped, flattering to wear and enjoyable to knit.
She strives to design clothing with a difference: not overly complex, but still giving a very unique end product. She likes to work with different construction methods, so long as they enhance the knitting experience and make for a more intuitively put-together knitted item.
Carol has been widely published in books and magazine and travels the world teaching in yarn shops and fibre festivals. The classes she teaches cover a wide range of subjects from cables and chart reading, through garment shaping and customisation right through to short rows and colourwork. In her classes you'll move from learning the basics to refining your knitting skills and fixing problems.
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