Timothy Ridge

Please note that this listing is for a PDF knitting pattern and not the actual garment. When I was little, we used to go to my grandma’s house up on Timothy Ridge in Western Ohio for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year. On those visits, which lasted anywhere from a week to ten days, she taught me to sew and imbibed within me a love of making things. She was truly a product of the Depression Era, never wasting anything and always using fabric scraps to make rag rugs. One of the most notable elements of her large red circa 1850 farmhouse was the massive curving oak staircase that ran through the entryway and up to the long wooden floors upstairs.  She had carpeted the downstairs hallway, all the way up the sinuous staircase, and all through the upstairs hall to the bedrooms with a rag rug made from scrap fabric of every color and kind. This rug was bright, random and cheerful, kind of like my grandma. In designing this whimsical, folksy shawl, I feel like I have captured the spirit of