I do live in my own version of that great movie — I have made this darn shawl so many times that I feel I am reliving the same knitting over and over! In this case, it really is a complete redo! Daughter Laura lost her black Sweet Dreams and demanded asked for another. Since her birthday was Friday, I thought I should comply. 🙂
I have sought to eliminate the “hump” on these crescent shawls and was very close with my last one (since edited with my new instructions!). Maybe 80% there. So with this one, I went even further and I think I solved it.
The problem is with the garter tab cast on. It is typically way too short. You could just lengthen the garter strip, but then the top edge of the shawl would not look like the rest of the edges. For this shawl, I used a 49-stitch garter tab instead of the 7-stitch in the original pattern, which is described in detail on my Ravelry project page. 98% hump free!!
My goal is to come up with a similar cast on for non-BooKnits shawls — regular “k2, YO” type shawls. When I do, you will read about it here!
PS – Just to clarify, Dear Readers. I am still using a garter tab cast on — it just happens to be super long. The purpose of the extra length is essentially to cut off the center top of the shawl where the hump is and start the shawl itself below the hump. The red line in the diagram shows the original garter tab cast on; the aqua dotted line is where I start the shawl.
