This is the unfinished shawl that I mentioned a few days ago. If any knitting experts are reading, and can somehow identify the pattern, I would be very, very happy.
Originally posted March 7, 2006
Update: On Pix’s advice, I posted for help on an evangelical yahoo knitting group, and received an incredible response, including this information:
I have found my notes, they are not mine, but my grandmothers. The shawl originated in Shetland, by one of the crofters in the 1800′s. It was a shawl made as a ‘wedding ring shawl’ in 2 ply Shetland wool. The wool itself is not a pure white, it fact being wool it is a yellowish white colour. However, originally, when made this shawl, could be passed completely through an average wedding ring.
And here it is. Apparently this pattern is about 70 years old; and see that square shawl next to it? I think that’s my baby blanket. Seems that Aunty Audrey had been knitting shawls for a long, long time.
That’s amazing! Good to know some yahoo groups are useful.
It’s a wedding ring shawl?
Oh lord. This is gonna be fun.
Your aunty was a knitting ninja. Can’t wait to see the shawl and blanket.
She was a knitting ninja. I keep looking at all this complicated white stuff spilling out of the plastic bag and wondering how it will ever turn into that perfect circular shawl. A challenge indeed.