L’Anse Aux Meadows is the first shawl in a series of three shawls on the theme of World Heritage Sites. L’Anse Aux Meadows is located on the north tip of Newfoundland, Canada. In the 1960s archeologists found remains from a Norse settlement – the only one in North America. It is thought to be the site referred to as Vinland in the Icelandic Sagas. Vinland was established by Leif Ericsson around 1003, and the Vikings were settled there for a few years until they returned to Iceland.
It is a triangular shawl knit using one skein of Nightfall from FibroFibers. I used the colourway Ivy to capture the idea of the fertile grounds in Vinland. The shawl shows grape vines since Vinland was named after the grapes (vinbaer) that grew there.
The pattern will be available on Sept 15 as part of the Seasons of Lace series.
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