I am totally stealing all of Annalithe’s modifications for this: I love her yarn choice so I bought some; I think it looks much better without the eyelets, so I’m leaving them out; and I’m going to use the same border.

5/8/2014 - Cast on! As others have noted, the cast-on sucks. But I got through it. Finished Chart A. Looking forward to getting off the DPNs. I may go to 2 circs when it gets a little bigger -- that will be easier then DPNs.

5/9 - Finished charts B and C, started D. I think I’ll switch over to 2 circs now.

5/10 - Switched to 2 circs and finished the D charts. And now it won’t go nearly so quickly, with the rounds getting bigger…

With the increase after the D charts, I decided to follow BlossomingKnits’ suggestion (on her project page) to use a smaller size needles for the increase round and a few rounds after that, as doubling the number of stitches all at once definitely seems to cause it to look a bit ripply. I settled on 5 rounds after the increase with the size-3’s. It’s still too early to tell for sure, but I think this was a good call.

5/18 - Finished the E charts and the last increase. So far it’s been pretty easy, especially as I’m not doing the eyelets -- count the stitches from the marker to the next bead, and otherwise just knit. But now the rounds are huge, so I’m expecting the rest to take a couple of weeks at least, since I only have an hour or two of knitting time per day.

6/1 - F charts done! One more knit round and I’ll start the border. (I’m using the Lunar Tide border.)

6/3 - Border is underway. I decreased 2 stitches in the last full knit round to make it a total of 574, and started with the border setup row. Looks like each repetition of the 14-row border pattern is 7 stitches of the shawl body (you only join to the body every other row).

6/7 - Bit more than half the border is done.

6/10 - Done! Just need to block. It’s smaller than I expected (I tend to be a tight knitter), and there’s a definite waviness at the increases, but I’m hoping these issues will be helped by blocking. We’ll see.

6/11 - I had to get a bit creative, as my blocking board is not quite big enough. I used a couple of cardboard boxes covered with a towel to extend it. The waviness isn’t apparent now, but the real test will be when the pins come out.

6/12 - Pins are out; there’s still a little waviness, but the blocking helped a lot. I’m calling the project a success.

After making this, I am not crazy about the whole “pi shawl” concept (which I had to Google because I’d never heard of it before). I understand the idea, but I like the look of regular, staggered increases better than the wavy look you get when you double the number of stitches all at once.

A note on the yarn: it turned my fingers blue whenever I worked with it. Be careful what you wash the finished project with!