After Sunset

After Sunset was the September 2012 pattern contribution to the Shakespeare in Lace club by Wooly Wonka Fibers. It is now available in wide release.

This shawl takes inspiration from Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare, a poem which conveys both the beauty and the melancholy of autumn. The lace motifs here are reminiscent of boughs full of leaves, but still sparse and simple. Sweep into fall – or any season of lace – with this gorgeous, generously sized triangular shawl. Shown in Nimue Sock from Wooly Wonka Fibers, this is perfect for your favourite fingering weight wool or wool/silk blend.

• Sonnet 73
  That time of year thou mayst in me behold /
  When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang /
  Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, /
  Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. /
  In me thou see'st the twilight of such day /
  As after sunset fadeth in the west; /
  Which by and by black night doth take away, /
  Death's second self, that seals up a