FREEBIE TIME: my shawl design Pania Of The Reef is FREE on my ravelry store, from now until the end of April 2020 (new zealand time). please share the link with your knitter friends! just doing my bit to try to take the edge off COVID-19 lockdown boredom, wherever you are <3
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the shawl uses 2 x 100g skeinz of dk/8ply yarn. try gradients, contrasting colours, tonal colours, single colour, stripes - knock yourselves out! add it to your cart and you will see the price is $0 :) no code needed

(if you have previously purchased this design from me, pm me with details and i will offer you a choice of another one of my designs at no charge - don’t want anyone to miss out if they want to take advantage of this offer)

this shawl is designed for two 100g skeins of DK where the darker one at least, is a gradient. however, you can of course knit it on 4ply or any other weight, adjusting needle size to suit - and you can knit it as large as you like. you can also knit it in a single colour or a single gradient - the choice is all yours!

there will only be 4 ends to sew in, if it is knit as written (and your yarn has no joins in the skein). however you may wish to cut the yarn at each change and sew in the additional ends, if you don’t like the effect of carrying the unused colour up the edge.

the shape is a slightly curved asymmetric triangle.

Pania of the Reef is named for a traditional New Zealand Maori legend.

In Maori tradition, a legend is similar to a European fairy tale: origin stories used to explain natural phenomena; or tales of long-dead ancestors and gods with mythical powers.

In this legend, Pania (pronounced like “Narnia” without the R) is a beautiful sea-maiden who lived near the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island. While swimming in the tidal rivers she met and fell in love with a chief’s son, named Karitoki; and they married.

But every morning she had to return to the sea and remain there until evening or she would die. Her new husband wished to keep her with him, because, since she was absent during the day, no one believed his tales of his beautiful wife. He discovered that if she ate any cooked food, she would be unable to return to the sea.

He plotted to feed her a bite one morning before she woke, but the morepork owl warned her and in fear of her life she escaped back to the sea. Her people took her down to the depths and to keep her from returning to her husband, Moana-nui-a-kiwa (the lord of the sea) turned her into a reef made of stone.

This stone reef exists just offshore of the city of Napier, in the Hawkes Bay region. A bronze statue commemorating Pania can be visited in Napier.

The shawl was named for Pania because the textured pale sections over the gradient resemble foamy waves breaking over an underwater reef, from deep water to the shallows.

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