Common’s Drape
€6

Launched on 2nd June 2015 to coincide with the 175th anniversary of Thomas Hardy’s birth at Higher Bockhampton in Dorset, this deep ‘V’ shaped shawl is knitted from the top down. The ‘V’ shape is deep at the back and the sides wrap and sit nicely at the neck and to the front.

Starting with a garter tab, it then combines three different textured stitch sections with contrasting garter stripes.

Each textured section is easily mastered and being worked on a 4mm needle makes this a quick but interesting knit.

Common’s Drape takes it’s name from the Thomas Hardy poem ‘On a Heath’

Size
Wingspan – 54 inches / 137cm
Drop – 21 inches / 53 cm

Yarn
Colour A: 2 x 50g skeins of Old Maiden Aunt 4 ply Shetland fingering, 50g = 183 meters
Colour B: 1 x 50g skein of Old Maiden Aunt 4 ply Shetland fingering, 50g = 183 meters
Sample shown in Jasper (main) and Blow Winds Blow (contrast)

Gauge
22.5 sts and 32 rows = 10 cm x 10 cm (4 in x 4 in) using 4mm needles over garter stitch after blocking

Needles & Materials
4mm (US6) needles or needles required to achieve gauge
Tapestry needle

Format – The pattern is supplied as a 4 page English Language PDF download
To read more about this pattern, please see this blog post

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‘On a Heath’, starts:
I could hear a gown-skirt rustling 
Before I could see her shape, 
Rustling through the heather 
That wove the common’s drape, 
On that evening of dark weather 
When I hearkened, lips agape.