A little insight into my design stream of consciousness: my initial inspiration for this shawl was the island of Manhattan. I envisioned the inside texture of the fabric as a civil engineer might, with the street grids populated with closely situated stitches. Yes, you guessed it, I had recently spent time in NYC. But by the time I was near finished, I got to thinking about the underlying jest of the fabric…a community of loops all composed from and synchronistically relying on a single yarn. How magnificent, really. That brought me to the Aspen tree, and more specifically to the largest living organism on earth (save the earth itself, of course), The Pando aspen woods. Pando is a clonal colony in Utah, derived from a single quaking aspen.

Like Pando, the Trembling Giant, the main body texture of this shawl is a complex network of individual loops that lead from and lean on and borrow and give to their neighboring stitches. The result is a single fabric that is strong and deep and warm, that will generously embrace you.

Yarn

DK weight of your choosing
Yarn used: No Longer Available Brim Breakfast DK; 100% Extrafine New Merino (230 yards/100g)
4 skeins needed, approximately 920 yards

Sizing

84” across top x 27” tall, blocked

Needles and Notions

US 7 (4.5mm) 40” circular needles
US 8 (5.0mm) 40” circular needles
2 stitch markers
Tapestry needle
Blocking wires (for finishing)
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This pattern has been tech edited and test knitted.