Caroline Helstone

I made this for my mother in law

Created by: Elizabeth Felgate

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    yarn held double.
    finished dimensions pinned out: 195cm x 105 cm.

    This is a shawl of dramatic proportions - I’ve written it out at this XL size, but also a (slightly) more modest large size.

    I had about 10g of yarn left.

    This is to be the first of a series of shawls based on characters in Charlotte Bronte novels.

    “Sweetness of tint, purity of air and grace of mien,” so Charlotte Bronte styles her gentle and pensive heroine Caroline in her novel Shirley. So I gave this shawl the blue of pure air (the pale azure she is once mentioned as wearing as a decorative touch), the grace of a flowing leaf lace motif, and a few sweet finishing touches.

    This is a very large shawl to reflect the epic scope of the novel and because during my background researches into Victorian shawls in preparation for this series, I was awed by the huge size that shawls grew to match the growing width of the skirt during the first half of the 19th century. But it can be easily resized.

    Yarns

    Needles & Hooks

    • Circular 4.50mm (US 7) 120cm

    Tags

    • Shawls
    • Women

    Craft

    Knitting

    Skill Level

    Advanced

    Status

    In progress
    Started on: May 24, 2015
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