203g Kaido to start - 88g left = 115g used
9g beads (372 beads)

98g for basic shawl

Beads: 8/0 Gold Czech Seed Beads

Beads Used: 136 (Chart A), 104 (Chart C), 132 (Chart D)

Using the metal Chinese needles from Amazon.

M1 = 20” (includes 2” ease)
M2 = 8 rounds
M3 = 44 stitches
M4 = 60” arm span
M5 = 19” arm length (armpit to wrist)
M6 = 38 wrist stitches
M7 = 52 stitches
A = 27
B = 118

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Be sure to knit one stitch at the beginning of the first 31 rows and move your marker over one.

When purling a stitch, be sure to purl it on the return row when working in the round (knit it when working flat).

Chart A - This chart SERIOUSLY needs more beads. I added more, but should also have added some around the Round 17 double yarn overs. When Chart A is finished, knit 17 stitches. This will be the new start of row.

Chart B - I need to knit another inch around to reach 20”. Be sure not to miss the < symbol telling you to move the marker one stitch to the left.

When beginning to work flat for the sides, the pattern says to include the corner stitch with the sides and not the top and bottom. I wasn’t sure if she meant all three corner stitches or just the middle “corner” stitch. I decided to do just the two out of three (so it is basically a “side, corner, bottom” stitch.

Added an extra 16 rows on each side before doing border.

Top Edge: 118 sts + 73 sts + 118 sts = 309 sts

Sleeves:
89 sts
My knitting is tighter on the sleeves so the decreases were coming too fast at 12 round plain and then every three rows. I ripped back and increased the plain rounds, then will do decreases every four rows.

Worked 24 rounds plain before beginning decreases.
Knit 2tog, then knit around.
Worked 88 rows of the four-row decrease pattern (decreasing every fourth round). Worked until 44 stitches were left.
Knit 14 plain rounds.

This “was” supposed to be for me, but it’s too high over the butt and too tight in the arms for me. I could have lived with the butt thing, but not the arm thing. I forgot that I knit tighter in the round so my arm gauge was off. If it does’t sell, I may rip the arms out and redo them at some point.