This Advent Shawl pattern is a triangular shawl full of all the things I love about knitting: colours, colorwork, lovely yarn, surprises, lace work, cables, textures and edgings that go on for hundreds of stitches. It provides for 24 days of knitting that should lead to a shawl right on Christmas Day.

To keep the overall shawl a mystery for as long as possible, only the first nine days have photos of that day’s pattern. All the patterns are included from the start, however, so if you can’t resist knitting ahead, then you are welcome to. There will be an update in a week to include more images. I thought that 24 updates/reveals would have been a bit tedious.

You can use this pattern with a Zanetto Yarn Advent Kit (Sold from Zanetto Yarns) or your own yarn:

For the first ten days, you will need 5g of yarn a day. From Day 11 onwards, I recommend 7g of yarn for each of six days and then 7g to 10g for each day up to and including Day 23. The border will need about 25g.

Note that this pattern is similar to last year’s pattern but there have been many changes with new stitch patterns being introduced.