Echoing Green Shawl

The Echoing Green Shawl is a top-down, half-circle shawl knit in two colors of Oakworth 4ply. The stockinette body is knit in Hosta and the lace border is knit in Larch. The shawl has optional decorative fringes along the central spine and the top of the lace border.
 
The shawl is the first of the four-shawl collection Four Seasons. It draws its name and inspiration from the beautiful, short poem by William Blake. The poem begins with a short description of children playing on a green, grassy field on a warm, spring day, and ends with the older men reminiscing about their youth, embracing the change from youth to old age. The poem contrasts youth and old age, with Spring representing life in general. Morning represents the beginning of life, the Echoing Green, and evening the end of life, the darkening Green. This Spring shawl is a celebration of this deep philosophy of life, reflecting childhood and youth in the light green shade, and old age or the end of life in the darker green shade with the falling leaves lace.
 
About the Four Seasons Collection
Four Seasons is a collection of four shawls/wraps for each season. Each design is inspired by a poem that celebrates that season, while also conveying a deeper meaning and philosophy of life. All the designs are knit in collaboration with Eden Cottage Yarns.
 
 
 
Finished Measurements
27.5” 70 cm deep at center x 90” 229 cm wide at the ends after wet blocking.
 
Yarn
MC - Eden Cottage Yarns Oakworth 4 ply 100% New Zealand Polwarth; 436 yards 400 meters/100 grams): Hosta (1 ball)
CC - Eden Cottage Yarns Oakworth 4 ply 100% New Zealand Polwarth; 436 yards 400 meters/100 grams): Larch (1 ball)
 
Needles
US size 6 (4.0 mm) and size 8 (5 mm): 32” (80 cm) circular
Or size needed to obtain gauge.
 
Notions
Removable stitch markers, tapestry needle or crochet hook to weave in ends, blocking pins/wires.
 
Gauge
20 sts and 28 rows = 4” 10 cm in St st after wet blocking on smaller needles.