March 2 - Designing a crescent shawl for Abi. Small but deep.
Chose stitch design. Got it charted - twice (following a power outage just as I finished first time - without saving. of course.)
Now must wait for needles to be free… crap.
And measure gauge on previously knit shawl in stst before I actually frog in.
And decide where to place beads for her. Promised beads.

March 3 - frogged old project. Reskeined. Washed kinky yarn. Waiting for it to dry. (Tried, steaming, but would need a clothes steamer). Eager to CO again.
Planning Estonian CO of 208 sts.

Mar 9 - was knitting along, several inches in on a bottom-up crescent design, and decided ‘nah’. Plus, CO was definitely not stretchy enough. I’d worked a double-stranded estonian CO, but should have gone up in needle size for it.
It was a lovely ‘true’ lace pattern and with beads, as promised, but not really ‘right’ for Abi I decided.
Back to the drawing board.

March 12 - working on the umpteenth version. Yarn is being a trooper! I think I’ve finally got it. No more frogging fingers crossed

March 13 - finished first half of bottom lace. Started second half (worked opposite direction) before bed and fixed an issue in opposite design. Feels strange to be working backwards.

March 15 - finished second half of edge. Much longer than anticipated. I should have better evaluated number of repeats on first half. Consequently, I’m pretty sure I don’t have enough yarn to finish in pink. Striping. Nothing in fingering yarn stash to match (coordinate), but then remembered teal handspun. Abi approved. Rather than short rows, that would begin striping in middle and be uneven to my eye, working a more standard triangle bottom-up shaping, but adding DDs to edge every other stripe (with blue stripes to be exact). Also leaving a wide center with diamond motif from edge. Maybe add some beads too… Or add to a stripe row perhaps. Pink on blue?

Final notes: Would have been faster if I didn’t have to keep spinning up more yarn :) In the end, did not turn out to be too big despite my fears that the lace edge was longer than necessary. As I anticipated with my planned decreases in main body, the double decs every 4th row helped not only with shaping more like a crescent, but also with making sure the FO wasn’t too big for kid.

All in all, I’m really pleased with the FO. It wouldn’t have to be striped, but I do like the striping. Striping throughout the body would have been nice, but of course I ran out of yarn. I also have no idea of yardage, so will definitely need to test again. Plus, I somehow had an extra stitch on one side of the body, which I easily fudged later but have yet to figure out where that occurred. Much of this body was knit on the go, at appointments, etc.

Also, Abi loves it. (rightfully so)