• This pattern is available also in my eBook, Knitting Like a Professor, released December 2010.

• Right now, the eBook is priced at $16 (and will probably go up to $24 after New Year’s). It includes 15 patterns.

• Read more about the eBook on my blog, knittyprofessors.com.

A nimbostratus is a cloud common to the tropics, that brings rain. It is a low, even-textured cloud, usual gray. It’s hypnotic evenness evoke the rhythmic pattern of this shawl, with its rows of faggoting on the bias and double yarn-over “stripes”.