04-30-2016

Second ball of yarn clocks in at around 95.5 grams. Switched to the second ball halfway through F4 on row 8.

05-16-2016

Third ball of yarn clocks in at around 101.5g.
Switched to the third ball halfway through F3 on row 49.

05-22-2016

Aaaand, done! Remaining yarn weighs 54.8g. I opted to do the stock 5-stitch garter edging listed in the pattern.

Overall, this was a good knit. It is fairly boring, though, even with all the beads. There aren’t too many stars to place, but placing them does slow you down. The edging takes forever~

I used knitCompanion to help me keep track of rows and I had labeled stitch markers for each chart and I also had a stitch marker in the middle of each section to ensure I didn’t mess up too badly. Honestly, the only real tricky bit was the magic loop cast on at the beginning.

When blocking, I used Inspinknity wires and pins to get as circular as possible. I pinned a flexible tape measure in the middle, too, and swung it around as I pinned to try to get an even 23” from center to get the suggested diameter. It worked reasonably well, although there were a couple sections that smoothed out better to about 24”.

knitCompanion says it took me about 59 hours to make this shawl. 9 of those hours were spent on the edging, omg~