A unique and easy striped crescent shawl using three different shades.

In the world of music a “tuplet” is an irrational rhythm. If the music is a straight 4/4 beat, the tuplet both fits in and stands out adding notes where you don’t expect them – making square music swing.

This shawl brings the tuplet to knitting. Instead of knitting back and forth like a straight 4/4 beat, this shawl mixes up the row directions, making attractive colorwork stripes with no ends to weave in as you go.

The sample shawl is done in a lovely gradient using three different subtly variegated skeins, but the Tuplet shawl could also be done with solid contrasting colors in any order. Or two solids and a loud busy hand-dyed. You decide.

There are extra instructions here.

ERRATA from the original posting on knitty.
in Part 2, rows 2 and 12 should be as follows

Row 2 RS: With Light, p2, m1l, k to marker, sm, k to next marker, sm, m1r, k to marker, m1l, sm, k to next marker, sm, knit to last 2 sts, m1r, p2. 4 sts increased. Turn work.

Row 12 RS: With Dark, p2, m1l, k to marker, sm, k to next marker, sm, m1r, k to marker, m1l, sm, k to next marker, sm, knit to last 2 sts, m1r, p2. 4 sts increased. Turn work.