Love this pattern, love the author and book behind the inspiration and love the yarn I’m knitting with. I may add some beads once I get to the lace section, but we’ll see.

As you can see, I’m indecisive about colours and have kept changing during Part B. I know for sure I want the lace portion to be in the teal - it’s just finding a balance between all the colours.

I ended up indecisive about whether to use copper beads or this muted silver. Went with the latter in the end as the copper were just a bit too shiny.

I love the cozy size of the shawl - so lovely to wrap around you and the perfect reading shawl. Great pattern and fun to knit.

EDITED OCT 2015. While pulling out some shawls to wear in the cooler weather, I pulled this out and still wasn’t happy with it. I just mixed up too many colours; I’d never wear it. So I bought another skein of Rowan Fine Art in a purply colourway and ripped back to the beginning of Part II and reknitted. No beads this time. All the colours are similar in tone now and go together quite well. Good suffragette colours - really happy with the shawl now and will wear it often this autumn.