The original shawl is designed to be worked in six colors of fingering weight yarn, with a solid black background, although I recently saw a shawl knit in a worsted weight and was no less impressed.

Knit three, purl three ... the blessed trinity. Her sisters in stitching, Catherine Kitty Shreiner and Kay Neff, sit with Fry in a semicircle, their knitting needles moving in concert as they turn ...