Let’s go on a Quest in search of the Holy Grail!

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Then on a summer night it came to pass,
While the great banquet lay along the hall..
And all at once, as there we sat, we heard
A cracking and a riving of the roofs,
And rending, and a blast, and overhead
Thunder, and in the thunder was a cry.
And in the blast there smote along the hall
A beam of light seven times more clear than day:
And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail
All over covered with a luminous SHAWL,
And none might see who bare it, and it past.
But every knight beheld his fellow’s face
As in a glory, and all the knights arose,
And staring each at other like dumb men
Stood, till I found a voice and sware a vow.
I sware a vow before them all, that I,
Because I had not seen the Grail,
would KNIT 24992 STITCHES and 1558 beads
in quest of it, until I found and saw it, as the nun
My sister saw it…
Alfred Lord Tennyson (and Anna V :o) )

Crescent shape shawl knitted top down. Let us step in a dense forest and look for what is hidden.

The Mystery awaits! Join the chat by the lilypond!

MKAL MAP

CHARTS ONLY. No line by line description.
Lots of beads! Beads are optional and marked in two colours -1083 in one and 473 in contrast colour. Pick one for a lighter version. Use a crochet hook to put the beads on the stitches.

Tricky stitch: ‘’2-out-of-3 aka ‘bunny ears’ youtube link

To bead 2-out-of-3:
slip the first stitch, place the bead on the second stitch, return both to the lefthand needle ( if right handed) and then work with the preferred method - this way the bead ends up in the middle.

WS rows are purled.

Cobweb, lace or fingering. Light DK is also an option.

The First Clue released on: September 20, 2020
The Second Clue released on: September 27, 2020
The Third Clue released on: October 4, 2020
The Fourth Clue released on: October 11, 2020

The shawl samples measured 47cm - 62cm down the ‘spine’, subject to the yarn, gauge and blocking. 110 rows plus Bind off.
I used 500m of yarn, but would require less if gauge is tighter.