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Suzanne from trinity shawls sent me this e-mail about her charity project to knit prayer shawls.

——–Suzanne Said—–

When visiting my Grandmother’s home at a very early age, I remember seeing what seemed like a huge statue of our Lady with a lighted candle at her feet. I was a very curious child, so inevitably I asked why Our Lady had a lit candle. Was she afraid of the dark? I was told that Granny was keeping the light lit as a prayerful vigil for the safe return of my Aunt and Uncle who were in harm’s way, and this was a life-altering experience for me.
Since that war, we are have engaged in several other wars and, especially now, the Terrorist attacks that leave many people, like my Grandmother, waiting in prayer for the safe return of husbands and wives, daughters and sons, brothers and sisters. They wait – with or without lit candles. They wait worried and concerned – they wait – they wait – they wait and keep vigil for the safe return of their loved ones.

an we help these people wait?
Can we wait with them?
Yes, we can. As knitters, we can knit for our family and friends, who hold vigils of prayer for their loved ones in harm’s way, a shawl…… to wrap them in love. With our own loving hands, stitch-by-stitch and inch-by-inch, we can combine our knits and purls’ to create a shawl that will wrap them in a warm caring hug. We can join them in wait as we knit day-by-day the shawl that will bring them comfort and love, during this painful and difficult time in their lives.
There can be peace in our world. Let it begin with those of us who are knitters, as we knit our way to World Peace!
Please visit Trinity Peace Shawls at http://www.trinityshawls.com to see the Rosary Peace Shawl Pattern and Kit. The kits come with the matching gift card, as a special way for you to give your shawl knitted in prayer and love for peace!
Suzanne M Harker
d/b/a Trinity Shawls
http://www.trinityshawls.com/
© Trinity Shawls 2007 All Rights Reserved.

 

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  2. I tried the link to trinityshawls.com,and the page was in Chinese(I think). Is there an English page that I can access?

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Knit a Leopard Print Shawl and Learn about Yarn Substitution

When I was looking around for free knitting patterns to share recently, I came across this fun leopard print wrap from Yarnspirations. 

This fun bulky wrap gives you tons of practice with instarsia and makes a bold statement while keeping you warm. It’s rated for intermediate knitters and the design is charted but pretty easy to follow. And it’s only 50 rows and worked in bulky yarn, so it wouldn’t even take that long to knit. (You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.)

So what’s the problem? The yarn that the pattern calls for has been discontinued, and it’s not a yarn that a substitute for immediately springs to mind. 

The original yarn was Patons Alpaca Blend, a single ply bulky yarn that was a combination of acrylic, superwash wool, nylon and alpaca. 

My first thought was Lion Brand Hue + Me, which is an acrylic and wool blend, with two plies instead of a single. It looks like it has the colors you would need to make this fun shawl. 

But as I was thinking about it, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce you to YarnSub if you don’t already know about it. This website is a giant database of yarn that can consider the qualities of the yarn you want to substitute and offer potential substitutions. 

It’s not only thinking about yarn weight, like I was, but also fiber content, number of plies, gauge and even the difference in yardage between one ball and another. It even looks at the price and can be filtered by your price range or preferences about fiber content (if, say, you’re sensitive or allergic to wool, for example, or don’t want to you acrylic). 

When I plugged in Alpaca Blend, it gave me a lot of different options, though many of them were self-striping or multicolored, which wouldn’t work for this project, and I don’t see a way to filter for solid colors only. 

Still, it’s a good tool to give you some ideas you might not know about or might have forgotten about, and it tells you how the new yarn is similar to the old one and how it differs, allowing you to make smarter choices when substituting yarns. 

[Photo: Yarnspirations]