Knit the Shawl Made Famous on Jeopardy!

June 8, 2018 by Sarah White

Earlier this week, knitters might have noticed a fabulous shawl on the shoulders of one of the contestants on Jeopardy!

The quizzer in question was Leslie Manion, a bookseller and knitter from Vancouver, Wash.

The shawl she knit and wore on the show was Vintage Freemont, designed by Jami Brynildson. It’s a mostly Garter Stitch shawl with eyelet wedges inspired by the Freemont Bridge in Portland. It was designed for the 2013 Rose City Yarn Crawl and is now available on Ravelry.

If you want to knit one for yourself, the pattern is on sale through June 10. Use the code Jeopardy! to get the pattern for $3 instead of the usual $6.

[Photo: Knitting Bee, via Ravelry.]

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Comments

karen says
June 9, 2018 at 9:25 am
Tried to purchase it but the coupon code doesn’t work.
karen says
June 9, 2018 at 9:28 am
It works with the exclamation point!
Nancy J. Gill says
June 11, 2018 at 1:16 am
It doesn’t look like the Fremont Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Bridge_(Portland,_Oregon)
at all, but like the St. John’s Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Johns_Bridge
Valerie says
July 20, 2018 at 3:09 pm
Whare can I purchase this pattern? There’s no option on this site to purchase.
Sarah White says
July 20, 2018 at 4:47 pm
If you’re looking at the pattern on Ravelry, the buy link is at the top right.

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