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Very Valerie
My friend Valerie recently passed from an aggressive form of lung cancer. She was an extraordinary person; in addition to being an accomplished artist and passionate activist, she was kind, warm, thoughtful, and fun. I designed this triangular shawl in her memory and imagine that she would have enjoyed wearing it. I labeled each section of stitch patterns with a word I associate with Valerie: spark, nurture, joy, and spirit. The stitch pattern and associated abbreviations in the “Nurture” sections are adapted from Nancy Marchant’s book Knitting Fresh Brioche.
The shawl is worked top-down in one piece from a garter tab cast-on. It features sections of textured stitches and two-colour brioche, using two 100-gram skeins of fingering weight yarn in contrasting colours. Directions are both written and charted. I do my best to make my patterns accurate and clear, but please feel free to contact me with questions or potential errata.
Low Vision Accessibility: This pattern is available in a low vision accessible format as a separate PDF with the pattern file name in ALL CAPS LVA. It is written in 24 point Arial font in all black text on a white background. All text is left-justified and has no italics. All of the directions are fully written out. This pattern is also screen reader accessible and has been reviewed and tested to work with a screen reader. It does not contain any parentheses. Special thanks to momcook for her guidance and testing.
I had a request for the brioche charts to not have colour, so I have added a separate PDF page with only the red outline for repeats.
Offered free for personal use or charity.
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- First published: July 2020
- Page created: July 12, 2020
- Last updated: September 25, 2020 …
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