Mosekonens sjal

“Mosekonen” is the danish word for “the bog woman”.

The bog woman’s brew is an old concept of a fog that occurs in late autumn at dusk when it is windless and a hot day is followed by sudden temperature drop. Over shallow valleys, bogs and on moist meadows lies water saturated hot air and the falling cold air can lay like a lid on top. You see a compact, milky mist up to knee height – it is called “the bog woman brews”.

This Shawl is worked in entrelac technique and the directions requires that you have some knowledge about this technique (Youtube is a good friend).

Work the shawl in one or more colors according to taste and pleasure. The shawl in the picture is worked in Extrafine merino 120 from Hjertegarn color number 4105, where the yarn’s dyed color reports largely correspond to the yarn consumption of one of the shawl’s squares.

This pattern calls for a yarn with a 22 stitch count per 10 centimeters gauge. i.e. a yardage of approximately 120 meters per 50 grams.