NOTE: If you purchase(d) a kit from A Verb for Keeping Warm, there’s no need to purchase this mystery, as a code for a free pattern download is included!

The first clue (portion of the pattern) of five drops 22 May at 10am Pacific time, and that afternoon at 4pm Pacific, I’ll be having a YouTube Live to go over that first portion of the shawl! Each Friday there will be a YouTube live for the clue released that day. Only techniques, with NO spoilers will be shown in the YouTube lives.

This pattern uses a “pay what you can” model to make it more accessible to more people while helping me to defray some of the costs for my own time. You can purchase the KAL at the following price points:

$15 - no coupon code needed
$12 - use coupon code 26RomiMystLove1 in your shopping cart
$10 - use coupon code 26RomiMystLove2 in your shopping cart
$8 - use coupon code 26RomiMystLove3 in your shopping cart

Welcome to my 2026 mystery shawl KAL: The Color of Hope. Last year, I asked you, my followers, to tell me what color you see when you think of hope. To me, it’s a sun dappled day filled with blossoms and buzzing bees. It is not passive. Hope’s roots reach deep and flower with action: the foundation of existence and the shape of our path through the world.

This is a crescent shaped shawl using two colors of yarn. The Verb kits include two skeins of Floating, Doodle, or Rumor base (fingering weight) one each of the two colorways, a 2026 limited edition shawl pin hand made by me, and a code to download this placeholder and all “clues.” The first portion of the pattern (clue) will be released digitally at 10 am Pacific time on May 22, 2026, and my first YouTube going over the clue will also be that day. The KAL will have 5 clues total, each one week apart. One year after the KAL is over, your mystery pattern will update to the full compiled pattern.

We will be knitting together in the @Romi’s Studio Ravelry forum and in my Facebook group, and I will also be doing YouTube lives! You will get a full schedule in the time leading up to the first clue drop. The YouTube lives will remain accessible as recordings.

Hints before the first clue:

• Do not substitute a yarn of which you have less than 400 yards;
• the pattern looks best in yarns that won’t obscure motifs;
• I am using the golden yellow set in Floating; and
• I started with the darker color.

Thank you for joining me. I hope you’ve found your own special favorite colorway, and I can’t wait to knit with you all! xox

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