The pattern is well-written, with lots of detail. It’s nice that there are both written and charted directions (I used the chart). The lace pattern is very simple, so it’s a really good project to carry around in your purse and work on whenever you have a few spare minutes, and it would be a good pattern choice for beginning lace knitters.

I really like the picot bind-off - it was the perfect choice for the pattern.

The finished shawlette weighs 79 grams. The stockinette portion took about 36.25 grams (46% of the total yarn used), and the border about 42.75 grams (54% of the total).

I did make one modification to the pattern:

Just as I started to cast on for this shawlette, I looked at the current projects on Ravelry and saw that the lovely and talented Larisa had just finished this pattern, and had modified it slightly. She questioned the extra knit stitches around the center lace repeat on each half of the shawl. (The two outermost columns of the center section of the chart, between the pink repeat boxes - or, in other words, the column to the left of the rightmost pink box, and the column to the right of the leftmost pink box.)

I looked at the chart to see what she meant, and I agree. The knitting of the border would be much smoother without them, as you wouldn’t have something different going on in the middle of each side, and you’d just do the same pattern repeat all the way across each half.

That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with the pattern--it’s perfectly fine the way it’s written, but taking out those stitches just makes knitting the borders a little easier.

So I did same thing, and stopped knitting the stockinette section 2 rows earlier, and then left out the extra 4 stitches in the lace pattern (2 on each half), which meant knitting to a total of 189 stitches instead of 193 stitches.

If you knit the pattern as written, I would suggest putting a marker between the first set of repeats and the center block of each side, just as a reminder that you’re at the center section of the chart and need to work the additional stitch before and after the next pattern repeat. I know if it were me, I’d probably just cruise right past it and then notice my pattern was off and have to backtrack.

To block it, I used blocking wires along the top edge, then put wires along the sides, going through the two outermost center eyelets on each scallop. I stretched the shawl out to the desired size using the wires. Then I pinned the picots out to make each scallop nicely rounded, and removed the wires on the two sides since they weren’t really needed any more. That worked really well to get the sides fairly even before trying to pin out the scallops.