Cast on Oct 9, 2020. Using some mods from ideas I learned when I knit this pattern twice before. Also, I’m not planning on striping, but I am following the Daybreak pattern for the shaping, as I just really love this shawl shape.

I knit the first section for a total of 60 rows. Then I switched to the “striped” section, but am keeping it in a solid color and therefore am not slipping any stitches. This is really about the shaping of the shawl.

Finished up my first ball of yarn on Nov 19, 2020, right around 60 rows of my modified Section 2. Laid out flat, it’s currently measuring 17 inches from the cast on edge along the spine.

Jan. 2, 2021: I continued the second section for a total of 64 rows. This is about half my yarn. I’m transiting now into feather and fan lace for final section. Looks like I’ve got two more stitches on one side of the shawl than the other, so I’ll sneak some extras in on my first row of the lace repeat, since it’s plain knitting.

Jan. 12, 2021: I knit about 9 rows of feather & fan lace, working from two charts and figuring out how to add snippets of the lace to the section of increased stitches as I went. A bit confusing because I’m increasing along the spine every four rows but along the edges every two rows. I sat down with an Excel spreadsheet and spent some time charting out the lace so that it will emerge from the increased sections rather than have those show as stockinette until 18 new stitches are there.

Jan. 14, 2021: I knew the two lace charts were different (one was a 4-row repeat and one was 6), but I suddenly realized that it wasn’t just two extra rows of plain stockinette - the order of where the lace row showed up was different! So my 9 rows weren’t following a consistent pattern. (The 4-row repeat was firmly based in garter stitch, with all WS rows knit, and the 6-row repeat had the WS row before the lace row purled).

I ripped all the lace out (each row is over 400 sts!!) and swatched the two patterns; I definitely like the 6-row option better because it shows off the yarnovers better. Luckily, this is the pattern I spent some time charting out. Restarting the feather & fan lace section.

3/6/2021: I ended up knitting a total of 60 rows of the feather and fan lace and then finished with an I-cord bind-off that looks a lot like the edges of the shawl. 25.5g or 0.9 oz of the handspun yarn remain.