So I wound off the single plied Hollyberry Merino into a center pull ball and started knitting on the shawl on May 12th. The pattern called for using a size 8 circular needle. However, I knit tight so thought I'd better use a bigger size needle if I wanted this shawl to come close the size the pattern called for, so I chose to knit my shawl with a size 10 1/2 circular knitting needle.
I found that as I progressed on this shawl that I was not going to have enough yarn to finish the 38 pattern repeats of rows 41 through 46, that the pattern called for. So I only did 32 pattern repeats and then worked the next row of: knit 11, yo, k1, *yo, k2tog; repeating this across to the last 11 sts, then working a yo, k11 for 241 sts instead of 277 sts. Then I worked the first two rows of the top border and then repeated these two rows 2 more times. Then I worked in all my loose yarn ends, before washing it.
After I washed my shawl and laid it out to block it; I found that my shawl measured 80 inches wide at top edge and 52 inches deet at point. The orginal measurements from the pattern were 77 inches wide at top edge and 37 inches deep at point.
I finished this shawl on the 26th of May. This shawl took me 14 days to complete. I love this shawl its very lacy and lightweight too!
Here is a closer look at the stitches and the thinness of my handspun single ply Hollyberry Merino Yarn.
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