Maggie's Shawl Natural and Botanical Yarn Bundle - 4ply

We were fortunate to meet the very lovely Jo and Rachel from twinsetandpurl at Unravel in Farnham. They both feel in love with our botanically dyed yarns and were kind enough to knit up Maggie’s Shawl to show off the glorious colours!

This is a very special kit because there are currently only 5 available! This is because we only dye 6 mini skeins at a time using the traditional stove method of mordanting over slow heat (with alum and cream of tartar), extracting the dyes from either dried flowers, roots or indigo and then dyeing the yarn.

The botanical colours are sourced from Coreopsis flowers, Madder root, Indigo (x2) and Weld. Please note the shawl image orange colour is now slightly darker, due to the nature of botanical dyeing.

Each yarn kit includes 2 x 50gms Natural 4ply and 5 unique 4ply botanically dyed colours. Each kit is packaged in a display box - perfect for you or the knitter in your life as a gift!

Please note actual colours may very a little bit, due to computer monitors.

The pattern is available here on Ravelry.

Here’s a little bit more about the pattern from Jo:-

“This shawl has been designed as a charity pattern to raise money for Maggie’s Centre at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, UK (Registered Charity Number SC024414) Maggies.org. Maggie’s is a lovely place where cancer patients and their families can receive counselling and support or just a friendly face with a cup of tea and a biscuit. We praise them for everything they do and hope that this shawl pattern conveys some of the gratitude we feel for the service they provide.

The shawl is created by knitting from tip to tip so you never have too many stitches on your needle. The main body of the shawl is garter with a simple slip stitch and lace border along the lower edge and an i-cord along the top. The pattern was designed in fingering weight yarn but could be knit in a variety of yarn weights. However more yarn may be required”