November 17, 2010
Yeah… This shawl is way too small. It’s no use to me. I can’t wear it on my shoulders because it just doesn’t…quite… reach. I can’t wear it around my neck because, again, the circumference is so small I can’t wrap it around my neck once and tie it in the front.

Wah!

Apparently I don’t have the patience to knit a shawl with lace weight yarn. I just don’t. I want to stop too soon.

I also don’t get how you’re supposed to use lace this thin. Despite blocking the heck out of all the lace weight lace I’ve knitted, it will revert back to its crumbled up state in no time at all.

I’m probably doing it wrong.

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At first I used 3,25 mm douple pointed needles and after them a 60 cm round needle. The dp’s I used are wooden so I had no trouble with needles dropping out of the work.

The shawl took up 51 grams of the yarn, so it is pretty small, but big enough.

May 22nd
At first I was worried this shawl would be tiny, like my Haruni, because I’m using a small needle size. Welp, this shawl isn’t going to be tiny… I’m on row 117, and the circumference is 224 cm.

May 24th
Row 134, and the circumference is now 320 cm. Which means folded in two the shawl measures ~102 x 51 cm (320 cm / pi = approx. 102 cm)

The pattern says it’s possible to stop at row 138 and complete with rows 157-160. That’s good because I’m worried I won’t have enough yarn. I would like to knit all of the rows, so I’m going to put a lifeline on row 138 and knit the whole of charts 4 and 5. I can then rip back if I do run out of yarn.

I’ve never used a lifeline before but it seems like something I should’ve used.

June 4th
Finished! Even though I was nowhere near running out of yarn by the end, it was still a good thing I learned to use the lifeline, and I’ll definitely be using it again.

Love this lace pattern, loved knitting it, love the yarn, loved everything about this project. Yay \o/