The White Queens Shawl
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$6.00
$6.00
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
Alice, Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 1 Looking-Glass House, Lewis Carroll.
In the winter, when the snow drifts against the fences, the nights are dark and the days are short, I wish I could, like Alice, step through the looking glass and find a warm and sunny world. But, as I can’t, it is the perfect time to settle down with a good book, a warm drink and a shawl to snuggle in. This shawl starts from a 3 stitch garter tab and grows with soft cables and eyelets to a tiny lace border. Knit in a silk cashmere blend, if knitting were food, this would be the comfort food of the knitter’s diet.
Size: 70 inch wingspan and 38 inch drop [175 cm by 95cm]
Yarn: Jade Sapphire Silk Cashmere 55% Silk, 45% Cashmere 2 ply, 400 yds’55gms [366 meters/1.94 oz] 2 skeins, shown in color Sterling. (Heavy Lace Weight)
Needles: US Size 5 [3.75mm] 32” [80 cm] circular needle, or size needed to obtain gauge.
Notions: Waste yarn for provisional cast on, cable needle, large eyed tapestry needle for weaving in ends, T-pins for blocking, stitch markers and optional blocking wires.
Gauge: 22 sts and 20 rows = 4 inches [10 cm] in pattern after wet blocking.
Alice, Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 1 Looking-Glass House, Lewis Carroll.
In the winter, when the snow drifts against the fences, the nights are dark and the days are short, I wish I could, like Alice, step through the looking glass and find a warm and sunny world. But, as I can’t, it is the perfect time to settle down with a good book, a warm drink and a shawl to snuggle in. This shawl starts from a 3 stitch garter tab and grows with soft cables and eyelets to a tiny lace border. Knit in a silk cashmere blend, if knitting were food, this would be the comfort food of the knitter’s diet.
Size: 70 inch wingspan and 38 inch drop [175 cm by 95cm]
Yarn: Jade Sapphire Silk Cashmere 55% Silk, 45% Cashmere 2 ply, 400 yds’55gms [366 meters/1.94 oz] 2 skeins, shown in color Sterling. (Heavy Lace Weight)
Needles: US Size 5 [3.75mm] 32” [80 cm] circular needle, or size needed to obtain gauge.
Notions: Waste yarn for provisional cast on, cable needle, large eyed tapestry needle for weaving in ends, T-pins for blocking, stitch markers and optional blocking wires.
Gauge: 22 sts and 20 rows = 4 inches [10 cm] in pattern after wet blocking.
