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Da Slockit Light Shawl
This Shetland lace shawl was named after the fiddle tune by Tom Anderson, ‘Da Slockit Light’. The beautiful music captures the sadness that Tom felt as the lights of the crofts in his home village slowly went out as people died and moved away from the area.
Shetland lace is now an endangered craft and we are seeing traditional ways slowly diminish and be lost. This shawl was created with traditional patterns and techniques to help to halt this loss.
It has been designed in two versions: a narrower scarf, and a broader shawl with a knitted on lace edging.
SIZES
1 (2)
Finished width: 44 (65) cm / 17.25 (25.5) in
Finished length 175 (183) cm / 69 (72) in
YARN
Jamieson & Smith 2-ply Lace (50% lambswool, 50% Real Shetland Wool, approx. 169 m/185 yds per 25g ball)
4 (6) balls
Sample 1 shown in Size 1: L27
Sample 2 shown in Size 2: L62
OR in 2-ply lace weight yarn which knits to the specified gauge and has similar drape and stitch definition.
APPROXIMATE YARDAGE REQUIRED
600 (982) m / 657 (1075) yds
TECHNIQUES
Lace knitting, reading charts, knitting on a lace edging, provisional cast on, picking up stitches, garter graft, knitting round a corner.
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- First published: May 2024
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