Photo 51: The DNA Shawl

Celebrating the Gene-ius of Rosalind Franklin

A tribute shawl worked in easy garter stitch and small portable strips that are seamed together later makes for relaxing knitting and a cozy shawl with twisting strands of a woolly double helix resembling Franklin’s lab’s famous Photo 51 X-ray.

Knit the strips one at a time, put them together later when you feel like it! Lengthening or shortening is easily accomplished by knitting more or fewer strips.

Gauge: 21 sts & 35 rows/4” (after wet blocking) in garter stitch on a size 5 needle (or size to achieve gauge).