Since Christmas I’ve knitted two shawls in my Yorkshire Warmth 4ply/fingering. I knitted the first in the Liggin’ shade because I wanted a darkish green shawl to wear with the red velvet trousers I bought for wearing at Christmas. For ease of wearing I adapted my Linthwaite shawl design to a 3/4 square shape, comprising three full triangles. This shawl shape can be worn without a shawl pin because it naturally falls around the neck to the centre front.
However, I wasn’t happy with how it hangs square at the back. So I knitted another, this time in the Druffen shade for summer colouring. I altered the shape by splitting one of the three triangles into two smaller ones at each side of the front, so that the two large triangles form a V shape at the back. (This construction features in the Wessenden shawl from Lace Knits). I also added some of the leaf edge pattern at the neck. Incredibly this version required no more than two skeins, less than 100g!
I love it, so the pattern will form part of the collection I’m working on for Yorkshire Warmth.
