Kingerby Meadow shawl

I live in rural Lincolnshire, in a small village on the edge of the Wolds. My part of Lincolnshire is renowned for its big skies and lovely landscapes and this pattern, which is part of my Lincolnshire Shawlscapes collection, reflects the beauty and history of the land which surrounds my village. 

Kingerby Beck is an area of five inter-linking meadows very close to the Lincolnshire Wolds. The fields are part of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and have a rich composition of flora which varies from meadow to meadow, which includes bugle, fairy flax, yellow rattle, tufted vetch, cowslip, adder's tongue, oxeye daisy, crossword and pignut.  A particular speciality is a colony of frog orchids - a very rare species in Lincolnshire. My shawl is based on slipped garter stitch and two different flower stitches, to produce a shawl that reproduces the feeling of wind blowing through the meadow flowers on a summer’s day. 

If you want to find out more about Kingerby Beck Meadows visit www.lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/Kingerby-Beck-Meadows.

The shawl itself is a long, triangular shape and has a finished size of approximately 150 x 90cms after blocking. To make this you will need three 100 gm balls of 4 ply (each ball = 410 metres). I used Wool is the Answer yarns with their one of a kind mixed colours as the main shade contrasted with “A Smidge of Magenta” and “A Smidge of Mauve”. The main colour “Iced Drops”uses almost a full ball, the two contrasting colours use approximately a third of a ball each.