Starting with a beaded picot cast-on may feel like a big to-do, but once it’s done and you start decreasing, you’ll find that the rest of the shawl is nothing!

I made a video that hopefully will help you learn the beaded picot cast-on, to use as a visual to supplement the written instructions.

This shawl is very easily edited to make it a different size; for instance, if you place a marker every 20 picots, you can still follow the instructions with ease, and still make a smaller shawl, if you have less than 500 yards of yarn.