I love to see your finished projects. I hope your will create a project page and/or post on Instagram #gobnaitshawlws

My husband and I look forward to spending time together watching the Scottish games, shopping and enjoying the music at our local Celtic Classic each year. Years ago, we stopped at the “Learn your Gaelic Name” booth for fun. I was so surprised that the Gaelic translation of my name was nothing close to my own. My name starts with a ‘D’ - Debra and my Gaelic name is with a ‘G’ - Gobnait. As you can imagine, my curiosity was peaked. After all, my name means Bee - one who seeks. It makes total sense once you know the whole story…
Gobnait is an Irish saint, recognized in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches for her use of herbal medicine to heal people, her skills as a beekeeper and for protecting her village from the plague. As the patron saint of beekeepers, her name also has been anglicized as Deborah, meaning “Honey Bee.”

You have a little bit of everything in this Crescent Shawl Sampler: knit in the row below, lace, double yarn overs, and wrapped stitches. These all come together to create the buzzing bees in the field of flowers before they create the honeycomb . I think Gobnait might have enjoyed this shawl.

Gobnait is a crescent shaped shawl that begins with Garter Tab. To obtain the crescent shape, you will increase one stitch on each edge for three rows and increase by two stitches on each edge for the fourth. This increase pattern is repeated throughout.

This pattern has been tech edited and tested

Special Techniques
Garter Tab
Knit & purl
Increases: yarn over, knit front and back
Decreases: k2tog, skp (slip, knit, pass over)
Knit in the stitch below
Knit on cast on
I-cord bind off
Working flat on circular needles

Finished Measurements:
Length (A): 68 in/170 cm
Depth (B): 16.5 in/48 cm