Star of Earth

On January 7, 2014, in Fairy Tale Lace, by Anna
The Star of Earth is a Chippewa tale about a bright star traveling across the sky. She looked down on Earth and watched longingly as the children played. She wished to live on earth, so that she could enjoy its beauty. She first tried to live among the flowers of the prairie, but was afraid to get trampled by the buffalo. She then tried to live among the mountain roses, but the mountain was too steep and the rocks hid her from the children. She then saw a water lily floating on a lake, and decided to make her home there. This way she could watch the stars from the lake, and the people whom she loved, for their canoes were always upon the water.

I thought the fairy tale was beautiful, and as I was designing I was going for sort of hybrid between a water lily and a star. My shawl is in the colour Sterling (silver gray), but I could imagine this in a number of different colours.  I used Luna laceweight yarn from Raventwist – and it’s a very generous skein of close to 1,400 yds of lace yarn.  It knits up beautifully, and due to the silk content (80/20 merino/silk blend) it has a really nice lustre.

It’s a part of the Fairy Tale Lace e-book, and as I write that, it occurs to me that I haven’t really been blogging about all the patterns in that collection.  So I guess you can expect to see a few more blog-posts about that in the near future.

In the meantime, here is a quick picture of the five patterns in the book so far.  By the time the e-book is complete, there will be seven patterns.


The e-book is available for CDN $20

And if you’d just like a copy of the Star of Earth, it’s available in PDF format for CDN $8.00

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