Nymphea by Simone Kereit

Nymphea

Knitting
July 2015
Light Fingering ?
20 stitches = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 6 - 4.0 mm
470 - 500 yards (430 - 457 m)
English
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Riversong

When beaver dams invite to slow,
I spread out wide and deep I grow.
Lingering here I see a fawn,
a silent heron, looking on.

Wild roses dot the banks I see,
showering petals onto me,
and waterlily pink in bloom,
I see in ponds I pass in June!

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Full written and charted instructions

This top down shawl is named after the wild waterlilies, though you may only see a few lilypads and flowers on the surface, the plant underneath the water is much larger with leaves on long underwater stems tangling like vines and buds growing upwards.
Delicate lace patterns intersect and converge, depicting the various parts of the lovely water lily: buds, flowers, stems and lilypads.

Materials:
Yarn:
Jill Draper Makes Stuff ‘Esopus’ (100% US grown and superwashed merino, 500 yards/457 meters, 113 grams /4 ounces)
1 skein ‘Rosy’

Needles:
US Size 6 (4 mm) min 32”(80 cm), or size to obtain gauge

Gauge:
20 st = 4” in stockinette st

Notions:
6 stitch markers
approx. 553 sz 6/0 Beads and crochet hook or tool for preferred beading method

Finished Sizes:
53”/ 135 cm wingspan, 19”/ 48 cm center back depth

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