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Now Available! This is the third shawl from The Shawl Saturday Series - a surprise collection of four seasonal shawls for 2019 - with one published each season. Plus an extra bonus pattern added in 2020.

The collection is priced at £13.00 for five patterns (plus hand illustrated inspiration notes) - a saving of 35% on the price of five separate shawl patterns! Please note that this price does not include any sales tax (e.g. VAT) that may be added depending on where you live.

“If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we’re all ok. Not to worry, ‘cos worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. I won’t be made useless, won’t be idle with despair…My hands are small I know, but they’re not yours, they are my own.. and I am never broken.”
’Hands’, Jewel, 1995

During a particularly stressful autumn, my kids and I would walk past an apple tree on the way to school. We noticed that the windfall apples would fall from the branches into the gutter and roll down the hill, stopping on top of the drain at the bottom of the hill. When it rained, the apples actually floated down the gutter and we had great fun ‘helping’ them on their journey.
This small moment of joy is the story behind Loanin: a shawl inspired by finding small moments of joy in-amongst life’s difficult times.

Knitted with two strands of laceweight yarn held together, one wool and one mohair silk, Loanin is a gorgeously cosy autumnal accessory.

CONSTRUCTION NOTES
Loanin is a triangular shawl, knitted flat in one piece, beginning at one corner and working down to the cast off edge. A pattern of slipped and travelling stitches is worked across the shawl, with new repeats added every 24 rows. Small circular ‘apple’ motifs are made by working increase and decrease stitches and a video tutorial link is provided to help with this.

JOIN US
Join in with a very relaxed year-long knit-a-long in my Ravelry group here.

YARN
Isager, Spinni Tweed and Silk Mohair holding 1 strand of each together
Spinni Tweed (heavy laceweight; 300m / 328 yards per 50g skein; 100% pure new wool)
Silk Mohair (laceweight; 212m / 231 yards per 25g ball; 75% kid mohair, 25% silk)
2 x 50g skein of Spinni Tweed in Light Natural Grey (2s)
3 x 25g balls of Silk Mohair in Prune (60)

NEEDLES & NOTIONS
4.5 mm / US 7 circular needle, 80 cm (32”) long (shawl is knitted flat but a circular needle is recommended to accommodate the number of sts)
Cable needle, 2 stitch markers (more are optional), tapestry needle, blocking pins (wires optional)

GAUGE
9 sts x 13 rows = 5 cm / 2” measured over reverse stocking st, before blocking
7.5 sts x 10.5 rows = 5 cm / 2” measured over patt, after blocking

SIZE
172 cm / 68” wide x 102 cm / 40” deep (Loanin can be made bigger by adding repeats of the pattern, making sure you have enough yarn to complete the garter stitch edging and cast off!)