My Mother recently died. I was grieving. I stopped knitting. I wouldn’t have thought there would be anything that would make me stop knitting. This surprised me, but I just let it be. My friends, after a while, bought me a gorgeous skein of yarn to remind me I wasn’t alone and to inspire me. I stared at the yarn for a few days; and then wound it. The right size needles just happen to be at hand, so I picked up the yarn, and just started knitting a stitch pattern that I had memorized. Before I knew it the shawl was done. It was “Friendship Healing.”

This is a single skein shawl. The yardage on the skein was 438 yds and I had 4 1/2 yds left. Close call. I did use Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off. Love this bind off, especially for shawls. You can find instructions for this bind off in the online magazine Knitty

If you have any questions regarding this pattern you can email me at justknits@hotmail.com.