Love this yarn, pattern and my mods.

4/16/11 - Finally finished. I quit knitting after row 18 and did a variant of the crochet bind-off in the pattern. I think it’s prettier that the original design (sorry, Dee, just a matter of personal taste).
4/11/11 - Took this on a family trip and couldn’t work on it for a day or two because I just couldn’t get my head around what was supposed to happen in row 13 of chart E. Once I figured it out, it was dead simple. It would be nice (for brain-dead social knitters like me) if the pattern mentioned that in rows 13 through 19 of chart E, you’ll be moving the markers left one stitch on every r.s. (pattern) row.

I’m still mulling how to simplify the edging, in case I don’t have enough yarn. It looks like I could do a crochet bind off after row 17, which is coming up pretty quick. Another option would be to get as far as I can with Chart E and just do the crochet on whatever row I get to. The fan motifs along the edges would be smaller, but I don’t think I’d mind.

3/7/11 - almost through the eighth repeat of chart C. It remains to be seen if I will have enough yarn, but I’m OK with abbreviating the edging if/as necessary, because it is a little too frilly for my tastes anyway.

Although I have no intention of knitting 11 shawls in 2011, I do plan to enter this one when I finish it. Why not? After all, this is yarn I won as a prize for 10Shawls2010.

So far, I feel as if I am re-knitting 22 Leaves. The biggest difference is that this pattern uses a budding lace for the “background” areas, whereas Lankakomero filled the background of 22 Leaves with a mesh pattern that looked a bit like a caned chair seat in my yarn.