TIME STOPS AT SHAMLI SHAWL
’Time stops at Shamli’, a short story by Ruskin Bond, is set in a nondescript town named Shamli where people lead mundane lives and time seems to drag.
The protagonist impulsively decides to get down at Shamli from a train and ends up meeting his old love. It is a beautiful story told around love, life and relationships.
TIME STOPS AT SHAMLI shawl, with its long lace lines in constantly changing colors, increases and decreases, is also meant as a little representation of this beautiful journey called life.
Time stops at Shamli is a sideways constructed triangular shawl designed to use one skein of fingering weight yarn. It used twisted increases and decreases along with yarn overs to form a lacey fabric with interesting surface texture along the ribs.
This pattern is available for free from Knotions website. However, go for the PDF if you like a clean layout and wish to print without the images.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS 53” Wingspan, 24” depth | |
YARN REQUIREMENTS 400-420 yards of fingering weight yarn. | |
YARN USED IN SAMPLE Supersocke Montana Color, 420m/459yds per 100g/3.5oz fingering weight, 75% wool and 25% nylon in 1943 colorway. | |
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS Length (tip to tip) – 63” Depth – 13” | |
GAUGE 24sts/36rows per 4 inch using 3.25mm needles, in stockinette st, in the round, washed and blocked. | |
NEEDLE US5/3.75mm, 16” circular needles 24″/60cm min. | |
NOTIONS Stitch markers, Tapestry needle. |