Nuphar Crescent

Still water. Dragonflies. Sun filtering down through leaves barely stirring in a lazy summer breeze. A slightly spicy honey scent on the air gives away the presence of water lilies. Not the many-petaled white affairs made famous by painters, but the blunt-leaved, yellow-blossomed bullhead lily that grows where the water is still and slightly brackish.

The Nuphar Crescent is a shallow top down crescent shaped shawl that starts with a magic ring cast on rather than the usual garter tab. Lily pads grow from the top of the shawl in wedges, while the body between the lily pads is worked in a garter ribbing to represent the barely-moving surface of a breeze-rippled pond. The border pattern stretches into diamond shapes that recall the shape of the lily pad motifs along the top of the shawl.