This is a sea-themed shawl I knit for my mum’s 70th birthday (she loved it). Old Shale is a traditional Shetland lace pattern, generally used as an edging. Here I’ve used it as the all-over stitch pattern but in two colours rather than the traditional one, resulting in a wavy sea-like shawl.

I used around 650m hand dyed yarn, and 150m undyed, but the ratio of colours used is very much up to you!