Compassion Shawl

Number 8 in my A Single Candle series, Compassion is something we all need to practice. This design started out differently than earlier ones: while researching quotations for the initial pieces, I found the perfect quote from Prince: Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Then, while researching ideas for the design, which I knew would be a shawl, a color associated with compassion is purple. Well, that became a no-brainer! When I found the color Iris this past spring, I thought how perfect could that be? And as I was knitting the shawl, the way the leaf motifs lined up along the lower edge reminded me of feathers. That made me think of the song Wind Beneath My Wings. The whole idea had come full circle!

The shawl begins with the lace border with decreases worked at each end to shape the edges. Once the border is finished the section above is a simple texture pattern shaped using German Short-Rows. Slipped stitches at each end of all rows add a neat edge to the work.