Trysil is a town in eastern Norway famous for it’s skiing – both of the downhill and cross country variety. This design is a doubleknit triangular shawl, with traditional Norwegian stars/snowflakes spreading out over the shawl.
There will be a KAL with a cast-on date any time before Nov 30 right here in the Knit & Knag Designs group. The pattern itself will be released on Nov 14, to give people a chance to clear their needles and find some fabulous yarn!!
The Trysil shawl is a double-knit triangular shawl. The pattern allows you to adjust the size of the shawl. It can be knit in any weight yarn from light fingering to DK or even heavier.
The pattern includes detailed instructions on double-knitting. So it is an excellent way to learn a new technique. If you’re already a double-knitting expert, just enjoy the shawl.
Since it is double-knit, the shawl is fully reversible.
Sign up for the KAL here ($6CDN if purchased prior to Nov 30, 2012):
And join the fun in the Knit & Knag Designs group on Ravelry.
I was just down in Manchester, NH, to teach at the Interweave Knitting Lab (Oct 4-7). It was really a wonderful event – all sorts of classes with all sorts of instructors, all concentrated in one hotel/conference centre.
I taught two different classes – Lace Design and Shawl Construction. It was a lot of fun.
In the Shawl Construction class we talked about how to work the increases and decreases in order to shape the canvas of your shawl – a lot of what is covered in my Shaping Shawls book, but we also branded out and talked about how to construct a number of other shapes as well.
In the Lace Design class (which I taught twice), we then talked about how to fill those canvases (shawls) with lovely lace patterns. 
Everyone was hard at work. Some parts were an individual effort, since as a designer, you have to make sure that you understand how the increases and decreases work together, and how it affects the overall shawl. And some parts were done in groups, so that people could feed off each others’ creativity, and also to make it go a bit faster. All in all, I was impressed with the designs and hope to see some of them in the future. 
I also brought a ton of samples to use as examples and teaching props. It’s quite remarkable how many I’ve amassed over the years.
All sorts of colours. All sorts of shapes. All sorts of yarn weights and fibre contents. Together they become a colourful medley of shawls.
It was also great to see so many lovely knitters, designers and instructors. I hope to see some of you this weekend at Rhinebeck. If you’re there, come say hello. I’ll be in the Cooperative Press booth, in Building C.
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