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This shawl was designed to answer a submission call for projects inspired by trees.

I live in apple country, so I take a drive in the countryside every spring to see the trees in blossom. Find the right spot and you have blossoms in the foreground, with the escarpment sloping down to the blue of Georgian Bay in the background—beautiful! This pretty shawl features eyelet motifs that resemble round, open blossoms with six petals in the central section, tighter buds in the smaller side panels, and a mesh border that represents the spent petals that fall to the ground after fertilization occurs and fruit begins to form.

The shawl begins with a garter tab and grows out and down with four increases every right side row. It is an intermediate project. The techniques you will need to know, or learn, in order to knit this shawl are:

• garter tab cast-on;
• knit and purl;
• yo increase,
• kyok double increase;
• k2tog decrease;
• ssk decrease;
• cdd double decrease;
• lace bind-off.