The GreenMan KAL will start Friday September 13th.

My favourite shawl shape is circular so this shawl is circular. It will start at the center and be worked out in rounds from the circular start. It is a lace shawl. There will be patterning on every round in some sections. One section will be knit like an edging, but not be an edging. It will be Oak leaves and Acorns patterning.
Most of the motifs will be based on leaves or flowers.

The shawl can be embellished with beads and dimensional leaves and flowers. The samples will be embellished. Embellishments are always up to the knitter.

I am planning on working with an assortment of beads. I recommend size 8/0 beads in an assortment of colours. I will be working with a few earthy shades, but I want to add a few “fancies”, crystals, drops and drops with shapes like leaves.

The bead I am planning on using the most is a iridescent delica, size 8/0. Something that will look like raindrops. These beads will be featured on the edging.

This shawl can be knit with lace weight or fingering weight yarns. I am working samples in both. The laceweight is being knit with Schoppel-Wolle Lace Ball 100 with an edging knit in Juniper Moon Findley. The fingering weight shawl is being knit with Queensland collection Kathmandu fingering in 3 colours.

Are you familiar with the Greenman motif? His face has been part of many heritages and folklores for hundreds of years. His image has fascinated me for a long time and I finally decided to recreate it in a knitted format. And knit a shawl in celebration of his role of change, regrowth in our modern world.

For more information on the Greenman check out my blog post here.

The pattern will be released in 5, maybe 6 sections. I am planning a double lace edging, just not sure if I will release each edge as a single or as a double unit :smiley:

The release dates for each section are; Sept 13th, Oct 4th, Nov 29th, Jan 3rd and Jan 31st, 8am pacific time.

If you are in Nanaimo and area, check with me at Mad About Ewe. I will be running the KAL through the store as well. The cost will include 4 workshops that will focus on teaching some of the specialized skills used in the shawl, as well as full participation in the one line aspects of the KAL. Keep an eye on my Forum for more information on this part of the KAL.

There will be video’s to accompany each section of the shawl. For example with the first section there will be video’s of how to start a circular shawl and a video about reading charts.

The pattern will be charted and written.