’Time stops at Shamli’, a short story by Ruskin Bond, is set in a nondescript town named Shamli where people lead mundane lives and time seems to drag.

The protagonist impulsively decides to get down at Shamli from a train and ends up meeting his old love. It is a beautiful story told around love, life and relationships.

TIME STOPS AT SHAMLI shawl, with its long lace lines in constantly changing colors, increases and decreases, is also meant as a little representation of this beautiful journey called life.

Time stops at Shamli is a sideways constructed triangular shawl designed to use one skein of fingering weight yarn. It used twisted increases and decreases along with yarn overs to form a lacey fabric with interesting surface texture along the ribs.

This pattern is available for free from Knotions website. However, go for the PDF if you like a clean layout and wish to print without the images.

SIZES/FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
53” Wingspan, 24” depth

SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate

YARN USED IN SAMPLE
Supersocke Montana Color, 420m/459yds per 100g/3.5oz fingering weight, 75% wool and 25% nylon in 1943 colorway.

MATERIALS
US5/3.75mm, 16” circular needles, tapestry needles.

GAUGE
21 sts / 32 rows per 4” in stockinette stitch
26 sts / 22 rows per 4” in pattern stitch

YARDAGE
400-420 yards