If you look hard enough, beauty can be found in the most unlikely places.
Imagine an abandoned building. Its windows have been broken, graffiti covers the walls and the concrete parking area in front of it is cracked. You wouldn’t think that such an area would be beautiful, but nature finds a way.
Surrounding this decrepit lot is a chain link fence, that, through the years is slowly being covered in vines. In German there is a word for that type of tenacity – Lebensmut: the courage to face life (no matter the challenges).
This top-down semi-circular shawl starts with a large tab that mimics the chain links of the fence. Leaves slowly start to appear along the inner portion of the fence, sometimes not entirely covering it.
Yarn
IMPORTANT: The yarn listed is a new put-up for Knit Picks, when searching your stash if you have the 50 gm balls of Twill you will need twice as many as listed in the materials.
Knit Picks Twill Fingering (100% Fine Superwash Merino; 366 yds [334m]/100 g): Patchwork Heather, 4 (5, 7) balls/skeins.
Spare smooth waste yarn for provisional cast on.
Yarn Weight
Fingering
Yardage
1,464 – 2,562 yards
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Needle/Hook
Size US 6 (4 mm) needles 60″ (152 cm) circulars
Size F-5 (3.75mm) hook
Or size needed to obtain gauge
Gauge
23 sts and 32 rows = 4″ [10cm] in St st
21 sts and 22.5 rows = 4″ [10cm] in patt after blocking
Size
35” [89cm] deep and 51(85, 119)” [130 (215, 302) cm] bottom circumference
Notions
Tapestry needle, stitch markers (optional for marking repeats), cable needle.
About the Designer: Mary E. Rose
Mary learned to knit as a young child and it has had an impact on her life ever since. As a teen, when her friends were getting jobs at fast food restaurants, Mary worked at her LYS, where the hours and working conditions were much better.
As with many knitters, when she couldn’t find patterns for what she wanted to knit, she started designing her own.
She currently lives in Central Ohio with her three children, who also craft. She can be found on Ravelry and her blog, or with knitting needles in hand, guarding her stash.
