Colour A: Black (Schwarz)
Colour B: Lime Green (Limette)
Colour C: Teal (Petrol)

Accidentally bought DK yarn rather than fingering, but after looking through other people’s projects, I’m convinced that it will work out. DK shawls look very warm and also a bit sturdier around the big YOs.

Picked this up again on the 12th of April (in the middle of the COVID-19-related quarantine), and after a couple of rows I realised what I had been doing differently so far and how to actually make my big yarn-over holes open up and become stretchy. Decided to unravel all of my work so far and start again, since I know that I’ll like the result much more if it’s like in the original pattern.

Correct YOs are worked “from behind” (cf. YouTube videos). (Wrong YOs result in weird twists, cf. my first two pictures.)

Started Section 2 on the 15th of April. That cable CO method sure is fun! (I should have known about it back when I tried my hand at that - now long frogged - Swiss Cheese scarf. The COs in the middle of the row would have been so much tidier!)

Secret secret: I ran out of the greenish yellow 1 1/2 rows before the end of section 3, so I just frogged back half a row and knit to the end of the yellow section in the WS row, and I’m hoping that nobody will ever notice that the last ~2 rows are missing. I wrapped all the end stitches of my short rows. No biggie!

The final black stripe got a bit wonky (I know!) because somehow I didn’t have enough short row space left for the final repetitions. Anyway - when I’m wearing it, you can’t see it!

The picot edge was the most fun knit BTW, but over hundreds and hundreds of stitches it drove me slightly mad.

I’ll definitely make this again some time, but in a lighter yarn weight, as intended!