3 Tier Shawl Workshop – Deb Gemmell: Top Down, Gauge Free and more

My shawl using the 3 Tier Shawl Workshop pattern is coming along nicely.

I’ve started my Tier Two section using the Eyelet pattern in garter stitch: one eyelet row and 3 knit rows.

This is how the 3 Tier Shawl Workshop works. I started with the idea of making a shawl with a garter stitch base where the wrong side rows are knit. There are instructions for stockinette stitch base where the wrong side rows are purled. It’s entirely your choice and you can change it up at any time.

Here is Tier One in garter stitch. Increases at the centre marker are worked every Right Side Row (green marker in fabric to indicatine the right side). Increases at the edges are worked every row throughout the entire shawl.

OK, moving on to Tier Two.

This is where things get exciting. You add two more markers so that you now have 4 sections to your shawl. Because you have also added 2 more markers where you will be working increases, the increases at the two side markers and centre marker are worked every 4th row.

You get to choose which stitch patterns to work in each of the sections. I have chosen to work garter stitch in the first section, eyelet pattern in sections 2 & 3 and garter stitch in section 4.

Hold on a minute while I load half the shawl on a second needle so you can see it all. Almost there… It’s getting bigger quickly. Done.

More green markers in the fabric to remind me which is the right side. Here is a closer photo of section 1 & 2.

I am only increasing on one side of this side marker, every 4th row. Working garter stitch in sections 1 & 4 makes it easy to get this Tier started.

I’m going to do a podcast about this shawl and the other 4 I’ve knit which are all different. Does this sound interesting to do?

Cheers, Deb

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It’s shawl time around here. Who knew! Not me apparently. That’s all I want to cast on so I’m going with it because what the fingers want, the fingers want.

Impressive, right?! OK, the beginnings are often not too exciting but one must start somewhere.

This is the beginning of the 3 Tier Shawl Workshop which is free at my debgemmellmods store on ravelry. You can knit this in Any Yarn at Any Gauge. You are the boss of this shawl.

Why a workshop? Cabin Fever, a company I had with my sister Lyn (Shelridge yarns), ran a retreat at the Fern Resort for a long time. Maybe 14 years, I’m not sure. For every retreat I wrote a new class. Then we joined up to organize the Yarn Over Sleep Over retreat for another 7 years. I also ran a small retreat by myself in Northern Ontario for a couple years too. All with new workshops for every retreat. That’s a lot of workshops.

This workshop is a class for you to make your own shawl. I give you general instructions and a structure for you to follow. I tried to put in whatever I would have told you if I had been with you in person. So here goes, the first workshop: 3 Tier Shawl Workshop.

It starts with the standard garter stitch tab and then you can work in garter stitch or stockinette stitch.

That’s Tier 1.

Fancy schematics are included. More shawl goodness next week.

I am knitting this wrap as a blanket with my Lichen and Lace Rustic Heather Sports wool. It’s meant to be worked in fingering so I figured that using sports weight wool and a nice big needle would make a good sized blanket. This is the Polaris Wrap by Veera Valimaki. It’s modular which I love and garter stitch, wild, eh?