Hansel and Gretel is a German fairy tale, from the Grimm fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel are children in a starving family. Their stepmother convince their father to abandon the children in the forest. The children overhear the plan, and gather pebbles that they use to mark their way home. At night, when the moon and the stars are up, they return home. The next day, they are once again brought into the woods. This time they mark their way home with breadcrumbs, but they are eaten by the birds, and the children are lost in the woods. They wander and find a gingerbread cottage belonging to a witch.
The body of the shawl is split into thirds. The centre shows the starlit night, surrounded by solid stockinette for the darker parts of the sky, and the edging represents the decorations on the gingerbread house.
It’s knit using one skein of Handmaiden Marrakesh in amethyst, and on 3.75 mm needles. It’s available as part of the Fairy Tale Lace e-book, as well as in single pattern form.
The e-book is available for CDN $20
And if you’d just like a copy of Gretel’s Shawl, it’s available in PDF format for CDN $6.00
It’s going to be the next shawl I knit.
Wonderful addition to the collection.