“Don’t pick the flowers. You may look at them, but do not pick the flowers.”

It’s funny, the memories that stay with you. My father’s garden on the Manitoba prairies was a place of beauty and magic, bought through hard labour and a defiance of hardiness zones and climate. On one side of the house, sheltered against the warm brick wall of my father’s study, Anemones bloomed every spring. I did not realize, being just a small girl, that my offered tribute of small white blossoms would kill the plants; I just remember the sadness my father’s admonition brought me, and the worn wood of the floor, and the scuffed toes of my sneakers.

Anemone Canadensis is a single-skein triangular shawlette with a rounded rather than pointed bottom edge, featuring a panel of five-petalled flowers and a beaded lace border. Because the wings of the body are worked in simple stockingette, this pattern is perfect for a skein of beautifully variegated yarn.

Materials Needed:

• @450 yards of light fingering weight yarn
• 4mm (US size6) needles or needle size needed to get gauge¹
• 2 stitch markers to mark center panel of body
• @800 6/0 seed beads (754 beads called for in pattern)
• a small (0.5mm) crochet hook or other method for beading
• 23 stitch markers to mark pattern repeats of border

My thanks to Naomi Parkhurst of Gannet Designs for permission to use the Buttercups and Rain lace motifs featured in this pattern.