The new Mystic KAL mystery knitalong from Anna Dalvi / Knit & Knag Designs.
Join us on a lace knitting adventure. The knitting starts on May 22, and there will be 4 weekly clues, released each Wednesday. Sharpen your needles, and join the fun!
You will need two skeins of contrasting colour yarn.
The original sample uses
1 skein of Tanis Fiber Arts Red Label in orange blossom
and
1 skein of Tanis Fiber Arts Red Label in poppy
or you can of course use any other colours that you might like. Tanis has lots of choices. Just keep in mind that you would like two contrasting colours.
You can order the KAL here for $6CDN, and the pattern will be delivered in 4 weekly clues, starting on May 22, 2013.
Note, the pictures show shawls from my previous mystery KALs, not the new one – it’s a secret to be revealed during the KAL.
The pattern is offered at the current price until the first clue is released, at which point the pattern price will increase to $8CDN
Hugin and Munin are the two ravens that belong to the Norse god Odin. They fly all over the world, Midgard and Asgard, and return to Odin and tell him what they have seen.
I’ve always found the story of Hugin and Munin fascinating. I mean…. imagine having your own private minions who scour the earth for interesting information and then whisper it all into your ear. So when I met up with Hasmi of Rocky Mountain Dyeworks in Banff last summer and she told me that she was rebranding her company to Raventwist, I knew I had to knit a Hugin & Munin shawl out of her yarn.
She sent me a few different skeins to play with, and I settled on Tyr in a colourway aptly named Raven’s Wing. It is soft and wonderful to work with. And with that colourway, the design just came together. I knit large feather motifs on the shawl for the wings of Hugin & Munin.
When Hasmi knit her version of the Hugin & Munin shawl, she used Torc – a high twist fingering weight yarn that has a very nice drape to it. And she knit hers in red.
The Hugin & Munin lace shawl is a top-down shawl with large lace feathers, symbolizing the ravens’ wings. It is available as a kit from Raventwist (along with a number of other goodies), or just as a PDF download from me.
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