Final Thoughts:

• The dimensions of this sport-weight version are not particularly more robust than my original (fingering-weight) version. But it does feel a bit larger and cozier and it’s 29g heavier. Still under 220g - which is about as heavy as I like a shawl to be. And it’s a good size.

• IMO, the crescent shawl is the easiest to style and it can also act as a scarf, albeit a big one. The knitted on edging is very satisfying. I was able to block this with pins only.

• Note: I added in a yarn over on every RS row (on each side of the shawl, after the edge stitches), which I then dropped on the WS rows. This was to provide a stretchier long edge. I did block robustly at the garter tab CO but there’s still a tiny hump (only really visible to me). I’m not sure if the YO method helped me to avoid a more significant hump OR perhaps contributed to it. Still thinking about this…

• While I may not have loved making the first version given that I’m not nuts about cables, I appear to have made this again. That’s the power of a great shawl pattern that uses up just the right amount of yarn (Well, I thought I had enough yarn :-) and fortunately I was able to get another ball in the same dye lot when I realized I’d run short… See below for deets.)

• I definitely preferred working with the Sunday Morning Lux Sport yarn (vs the J Asselin Fino I used the last time). It is a delicious yarn that walks a line between rustic and luxurious.

Yarn mathing to see if I’ll have enough:

• This time, I will make this shawl with the Sonder Lux Sport 3.28y/g. I have 191g or 626.5y. According to the math, I should almost be able to make it as I will use less yardage/g with the Sonder than the Fino (albeit not by much!).

119g (62.3%) (390y)
72g (37.7%) (236y) - 626y

• But I do have to go up a needle size give that the Sonder is a sport-weight and the Fino is fingering (though not fine fingering). And that may well use up more yarn than I have. I could either just wing it, and stop at the size small if I estimate that I will not have enough to get to the medium once I get to the full stitch count for the body in small OR I can use up some fingering - a grey that also has a very green undertone. This yarn is speckled but very lightly. I estimate that I can do the first ~5g with that yarn and then complete the shawl on US5 with the Sonder Lux. We’ll see how it goes.

• Good thing I was able to pick up another hank of this yarn at Knit City Toronto. Because, as of exactly half way through the border, I should have had 36g of yarn (half of 72g) but I had 31g. I also had only 71g when I started the border, as I needed an additional gram to finish the body.

• If I’d used the entirety of the Natural Sock (I started with 17g, I could have avoided purchasing a new ball of the Sonder. But it would have been unpleasant yarn chicken and, given that there is a bit of distinction between the yarns - namely that the Natural Sock is a slightly warmer/more yellow grey than the Sonder Lux - I wouldn’t want there to be a significant hemisphere of it or it might start to mess with the overall look of things. Hilariously though, I could have just used the Sonder, given that I bought another ball, and left the Natural Sock out altogether. That would mean I’d have had to have started after Knit City or determined that I’d buy another ball before I started - cuz the cast on in the Natural Sock was the first thing knitted.

• As it is I used 13g of the new ball (which was exactly 100g) so I was 13g short for the size medium in sport-weight, prob because I went up a needle size. I suspect, had I only used the SM Lux Sport, I’d have used ~20g of the third ball…

Post-Blocked Dimensions: 67” long / 16” high

• For future reference: If you make this again in a sport-weight yarn, go up a needle size to US5 and make sure that you have, at a minimum 210-215g / 700y. I’d even go with 725y to account for heavier sport-weight yarns (or maybe even a light DK…)