This shawl can be knit in three versions: one using fingering weight yarn, and the other two using laceweight. The medium laceweight version features a strip of beaded and sequined cashmere.

The muse of dance and choral music, Terpsichore’s name means literally “delight in dance.” What better place to find such a muse in the modern day, than in New Orleans, Louisiana? This music and dance filled city boasts a series of streets named after muses. Terpsichore is there with her sisters, and in the Terpsichore finger park where the statue “Birth of a Muse” – the first public artwork commissioned since Hurricane Katrina – shows her emerging from a trumpet flower.

Terpsichore’s shawl is a classic beauty, showing the fleur-de-lis, a symbol of New Orleans, surrounded by a delicate mesh. The smallest version, in fingering weight yarn, is bound off with a simple picot edge. The larger laceweight versions, one with a strip of beads and sequins fit for a night on the town, feature a knitted on edging.

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