This side-to-side shawl was designed with the coastline of Maine in mind - which was formed by the lost micro-continent of Avalonia. The shawl is nearly symmetrical, and can be made to any width; I agressively blocked mine so it was wide enough to wrap around my daughter and tie in the back - use a light blocking instead if you wish to preserve the ridges made by the stitch pattern.

FINDING AVALONIA

Child of Volcanos, Daughter of the Southern Seas, how many million sunrises did you witness alone? How many sunsets passed before your long rifting journey northward, pushing the Iapetus Ocean ahead and swashing the Rheic Ocean in your wake? Finally encountering Baltica, rotating to meet you, and Laurentia - then together joining as companions to create The Old Red Sandstone Continent. But alas, behind you stalked the giant Gondwana, folding the Earth to trap you away from the Sea, in the interior of a new supercontinent: Pangaea.

However, as the forests slowly developed and the dinosaurs danced above, the earth still trembled below. A new rift slowly opened, breaking apart the immense Pangaean supercontinent, and finally freeing the landlocked Avalonia. Waters from the great Panthalassa flowed into the rift to form the Atlantic Ocean, and Avalonia returned once again to the Sea, broken but beautiful, to form the coastlines of North America and Europe…