Amalia is a crescent shaped shoulder shawl with a lace border adapted from the Portuguese Edging in A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker.

A wider edging with the lace worked on both sides combines with garter stitch short rows in a shoulder shawl designed to unleash the inner fadista* in any adventurous intermediate knitter.

Amalia can be made in two sizes, and the pattern includes both written and charted instructions along with a schematic for blocking to finished size.

Kits for Amalia, including a printed copy of the pattern, are available for purchase at Shall We Knit? in Waterloo, Ontario.

Printed copies of the pattern are available for purchase at:

• The Needle Emporium in Ancaster, Ontario
• The Purple Purl in Toronto, Ontario
• Shall We Knit? in Waterloo, Ontario

Please contact the shop to confirm the pattern is in stock.

The pattern is available for purchase as a downloadable PDF from Patternfish or Ravelry.

* a female singer of fado, the musical genre from Portugal. Amalia is named after the woman known as the “Queen of Fado”, Amália Rodrigues.

Notes updated Oct 31, 2010