To find Eric Wolff’s beautiful white sock yarn that I used (only $14 for 400 yds!) click here.
Pre-casting on thoughts: Really wanna bust some stash for this project, so I chose what I hope best suits. Definitely planning on seed stitch instead of star, because a) I don’t want to have to pay that much attention and b) I can more easily repair seed stitch should a snag or bug cause an injury to one of those sections. Planning also on picking up and doing a narrow band across the top when all is finished, like so many others have helpfully demonstrated.
Mods:
- Slip stitch edging across top edge of upper shawl body, aka 1st stitch of RS rows (so I can more easily pick up stitches later)
- Seed stitch instead of star stitch
01-31-2024
Picking up sts for lower half tonight!
Quartered w stitch markers, pick up 39, then 40, then 39, then 40 (m), then 39, then 40, then 40, then 39. (317 sts)
02-03-2024
Finished Mosaic Chart 3, somehow have 337 sts. Oh well.
05-06-2024
Been sleeping on this. Trying to crank it out now that it’s almost summer! Oops. Almost to the big mosaic band in the lower shawl body and I somehow have 399 instead of 389… hmm…
I tried plowing forward but no good. Ripped back, got my correct stitch count, then began the band again. This time good!
08-07-2024
This uses way less yarn than called for, imo. But I guess I haven’t done the tassles yet, so we shall see!
11-20-2024
My god, that was a loooong break. I ran out of white yarn, it took me forever to get another skein, but maybe I can still finish by the end of the year!
12-15-2024
Finished. Whew! Here are my thoughts:
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you can absolutely substitute seed stitch with no need to do the additional +/- stitch count to make up for gauge difference as mentioned in the pattern. I just ignored that part, did seed stitch wherever the other fancier one was called for, zero problems.
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I really like my 2-stitch knitted on i-cord bind off, so much so that I did it across the top of the shawl as well. I thought I was going to add another strip of the small mosaic chart like so many other folks did, but in the end, I really liked the i-cord look better. 3 stitched was too chunky, so I did 2.
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This truly felt like it took forever, and I think it was the loooong rows. I don’t know if I would knit it again.
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I honestly thought it would come out a bit bigger! Could do it in a sport weight and would like it just as much.
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I should not have slipped the first stitch of every row. While that does make a more beautiful finished edge, it complicated picking up stitches along the top edge for my i-cord bind off, so if you’re thinking of doing the same, skip it. Leave the regular bumpy garter edge, you won’t see it once you pick up & knit on a border or other added edge element.
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