Give Me the Slip is a gorgeous shawl! It is knit side to side in a long biased rectangle, and the beautiful mosaic stitch pattern is created with slipped stitches. Only one color is worked per row, so it’s an easy first foray into colorwork.

I used a solid main color paired with a 6-color gradient set from Miss Babs, but you can use any number of contrast colors from just one to an entire stash clean-out! As written, the shawl is 60” (150cm), but can be bound off at any time, longer or shorter.

Check out my coordinating shawl design, Forgive My Lunacy

Size: 18” x 60” (46cm x 152cm).

Needles: US 5 / 3.75mm, or size to obtain gauge.

Gauge: 20 sts and 24 rows = 4”/10cm in Broken Glass stitch pattern, blocked and dried. Differences in gauge will affect size, drape, and yardage requirements.

Yarn: fingering weight:
MC: 600 yards / 550 meters;
CC total: 800 yards / 734 meters.

Any number of CCs can be used, from just one to a whole stash clean-out. The Miss Babs sample used 6 CCs of 133 yards (38g) each.

Notions: tapestry needle to weave in ends.

Sample knit in: Miss Babs Yummy 2-ply (100% superwash Merino; 400 yards/ 110g) in Half Past Midnight (MC) and Turned Into a Newt Gradient Set (6 CCs).

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