Knot Knecessarily Known Knitting

Last weekend, The Knitting Guild Association hosted their first immersion weekend. The topic was shawls and the teacher was Tonia Lyons . The event consisted of four virtual classes, two on Friday and two on Saturday. If you wanted to ask Tonia questions, you needed to be at class when it was live on Zoom. But the classes are also recorded, making it possible to watch later if you had other things on your weekend schedule or if you want to work through the swatches at a more leisurely pace. The cost was only $25 to TKGA members, which is a fantastic bargain! During the class, a couple of us in the chat were wondering about shawl shapes and how to wear them. Which shapes lend themselves to wearing without a pin? Which ones tend to stay on your shoulders and which ones tend to embrace the siren call of gravity? I am a big fan of leaving neck space on a shawl. Having a gap allows the shawl to sit on your shoulders without a lot of fabric bunching at your neck...