If you look hard enough, beauty can be found in the most unlikely places. Imagine an abandoned building. Its windows have been broken, graffiti covers the walls and the concrete parking area in front of it is cracked. You wouldn’t think that such an area would be beautiful, but nature finds a way.

Surrounding this decrepit lot is a chain link fence, that, through the years is slowly being covered in vines. In German there is a word for that type of tenacity - Lebensmut: the courage to face life (no matter the challenges).

This top-down semi-circular shawl starts with a large tab that mimics the chain links of the fence. Leaves slowly start to appear along the inner portion of the fence, sometimes not entirely covering it.

This pattern is both completely written and completely charted. You could make the entire pattern using just the written or just the charted.