Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Mariana in the Moated Grange”
(Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)

With blackest moss the flower-plots
Were thickly crusted, one and all:
The rusted nails fell from the knots
That held the pear to the gable-wall.
The broken sheds look’d sad and strange:
Unlifted was the clinking latch;
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch
Upon the lonely moated grange.
She only said, “My life is dreary,
He cometh not,” she said;
She said, “I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I were dead!”

The poem was inspired by a line from Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. When I read the poem I thought about an Elizabethan home with leaded windows. I also felt like Mariana was trapped by her love for Angelo and his abandonment.

This triangular shawl is knitted top down with an applied border. If you need some help on how to do this Quarrelsome Rhinoceros has done a fantastic video on the subject!

You’ll need approx 389yds/356m of the Main Colour and 192yds/176m of the contrast colour.

Rainbow Badge is from Gretel Creates on Etsy. At time of going to press, she was sold out but she has lots of other cool badges you can use to secure your shawl! Photos were taken at the American Museum in Britain at Claverton House in Bath.

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