If this mystery shawl is run just like last year's mystery shawl, it'll be a chart that you get only like... 20-30 or so rows at a time. Usually, in the group someone will transcribe it quickly to written out stitches for the people that dislike charts.
I like it just because the mystery shawl provides a break from my other knitting projects. I have a tendency to concentrate all my energy on one project and get burned out before I finish it because I get sick of it. (I am the queen of almost-but-not-quite-finished-objects.) The Mystery Shawl helps pace me out for a project. I find that the amount of knitting per section I can do in two or three nights; this keeps it fresh and interesting for me. This time, I'm intrigued that the beads are required to have significant contrast to the yarn because they are integral to the pattern.
I know some people who sign up but don't do it at all, just so that they can get what is usually a very pretty lace pattern for free.
I think it's as difficult as a typical beginner's lace shawl. It's usually easier rather than harder because difficulty needs to be generally toned down a bit because people don't know what they are knitting beforehand... but it does require knowing how to increase, decrease, etc. Last year's shawl was pretty easy and quite mindless for large sections of it. I know a lot of people went into it as their first large lace project and enjoyed it, just because of the large support group that is created around the Mystery shawl KAL.
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Date: 2008-08-28 01:40 am (UTC)I like it just because the mystery shawl provides a break from my other knitting projects. I have a tendency to concentrate all my energy on one project and get burned out before I finish it because I get sick of it. (I am the queen of almost-but-not-quite-finished-objects.) The Mystery Shawl helps pace me out for a project. I find that the amount of knitting per section I can do in two or three nights; this keeps it fresh and interesting for me. This time, I'm intrigued that the beads are required to have significant contrast to the yarn because they are integral to the pattern.
I know some people who sign up but don't do it at all, just so that they can get what is usually a very pretty lace pattern for free.
I think it's as difficult as a typical beginner's lace shawl. It's usually easier rather than harder because difficulty needs to be generally toned down a bit because people don't know what they are knitting beforehand... but it does require knowing how to increase, decrease, etc. Last year's shawl was pretty easy and quite mindless for large sections of it. I know a lot of people went into it as their first large lace project and enjoyed it, just because of the large support group that is created around the Mystery shawl KAL.