(notes for changes included)Update 5/25

4/25/2011 Started the lace edge on dbl pt needles.

4/30/2011 finished. Picture No. 1 is a true view of the color of the shawl.

I made the medium size and was surprised at the finished unblocked size (seemed small). However, once it was blocked it grew quite a bit. See pictures with ruler.

Instead of alternate colored stripes in the body I chose to add the “garter/eyelet rib” every 20 rows, four total, much like some of the other knitters.

The knit picks palette yarn was only $1.99 per ball and this size didn’t even take a full 2 balls. I had 16gr. left over from the second ball. So that makes this shawl a “wonderfully” inexpensive beautiful project at a cost of $4.00 total!

For the eyelet: once you decide the placement…Update:5/25 I added 3 extra rows of stockinet st after the leaf designs to give a little space before I started the textured eyelet then started with row 1 below.

row 1 (WS) Knit across the row BUT P the center stitch to keep the center raised seam pattern on the front of the work.

row 2 (RS) K1, SSK, then Purl to the center three stitches-do the dbl dec, continue to P to the last 3 st, K2 tog, K1.

Row 3 (WS) K2, (YO, K2 tog) to the center st, P1, Whatever you ended with before the p1, either the YO or the K2 tog, that is what you start with after the P1 and continue in the eyelet pattern to the last 2 st, then K2.

Row 4 (RS) K1, SSK, P to the center 3 st-do the dbl dec, continue to P to the last 3 st, K2 tog, K1.

Row 5 (WS) K to the center st, P1, K to the end.
This completes the “garter/rib eyelet” pattern.
(I did four of them with 20 rows in between each.)

1. Unblocked the measurement from the center bottom point to outside corner was 24”
2. On the blocking mat, wet, that same
   measurement was 40”
3. After blocking at a dry resting state that same measurement is still 40” :-)

I cannot tell you how light and airy this feels, it feels whispery light on your shoulders, and just right for those summer restaurants with air conditioning!