London Brick Shawl

Walk through almost any Victorian neighbourhood in London and you'll find it: an unmistakable warm yellow-gold brick, sometimes pale as butter, sometimes deepening to amber or terracotta depending on the light and the years. London stock brick built the city's terraces, its squares, its garden walls. Made from the clay dug from the fields that once edged London, fired with ash and chalk, each brick’s colour reflects the composition of the city itself. I learned to knit in a neighbourhood lined with it. After living with this brick my whole London life, I’m drawn back towards it every time I visit. Something of its character and warmth found its way into this shawl. London Brick is an asymmetrical triangle in fingering weight yarn. Striking garter stitch alongside a simple slip stitch technique worked in two colours produces a fabric of surprising depth and character, richly textured and deeply satisfying to knit. **Yarn:** Natural Fibre Arts Alpaca Luxe [60% Superwash Merino, 20% Alpaca, 20% Silk; 460m/503yds per 115g skein] 2 x 115g skeins, Colour A: Wild Oat Colour B: Burlap OR 70g (approximately 280m/306yds) each of two contrasting colours of fingering weight yarn. **Needles** 4mm (US 6) needles (or size to obtain gauge) **Notions** Tapestry needle Removeable stitch marker