I often listen to podcasts as I knit, and my absolute favorite is No Such Thing as a Fish. With a fabulous blend of facts and humor, the podcast is like listening in to a conversation between your most intelligent friends. One of the many things I learned listening to the podcast is about the mycorrhizal network of fungi that connect plants, helping them communicate with each other and share resources. While designing Wood Wide Web (a punny name journalists coined for the mycorrhizal network) the lace columns brought to mind the fungi connecting the leafy ends.

Wood Wide Web is provisionally cast on, then the first edging is worked from the center to the edge. The live stitches are picked back up and the body of the shawl is knit before finishing with the second edge. This ensures the two leafy edges are exact mirror images of each other, and no grafting is required! The lace pattern is both fully charted and fully written out.

Yarn
Miss Babs Katahdin
100% Superwash Bluefaced Leicester Wool; 1750 yd/15.5 oz (1600 m/439 g) skeins 1 skein, shown in Franklin

Or approximately 1680 yards/1537 meters of light fingering weight yarn.

Finished Measurements
Length: 81”/202.5 cm
Width: 19.5”/49 cm

Needles
US 2.5 3 mm circular needle, 24”/60 cm long, or size to obtain gauge

Gauge
Blocked: 24 stitches and 36 rows = 4”/10 cm square in lace body stitch.
Blocked: 24 stitches and 34 rows = 4”/10 cm square in lace edge stitch.

Notions
• Crochet hook US D/3.25 mm
• Scrap yarn
• Stitch markers (optional)
• Tapestry needle