I used the plain bind-off option instead of the picot bind-off, because I thought it would be a better choice with the thin silk yarn. Bound off with: K1, * K1, slip the tip of the LH needle into the 2 sts on the RH needle and knit them together TBL. Repeat from .

Modifications:
Went down a needle size because of the thin silk yarn. Added 4 more rows in the lace section of the ruffle, and 4 more rows in the garter section.

If I were making it again, I’d make a small change just to make blocking easier - I’d add an eyelet at the edge of every RS row in the stockinette and garter sections (something like k2, YO, k2tog at the start of the row, and the reverse at the end). Then I would have had a nice row of eyelets all the way across the top to insert the blocking wire through.

I might also consider making the ruffle more ruffly by going up two needle sizes like the FairyGodKnitter’s. That would probably have been too loose in this yarn, but would be great for a wooly yarn.

Blocking:
To block it, I used blocking wires across the top, then I ran wires through the first set of eyelets at the base of the ruffle, then pinned out the wires to make a half circle.
For the ruffle, I first smoothed sections of the ruffle out away from the body of the shawl to stretch it outwards, then I sort of fluffed it and pinched it into ruffles. I didn’t use any pins on the ruffle section. (See blocking closeup photo.)
The ruffle came out pretty flat from stretching it outwards, though, so I reblocked it by starting at one end and taking a small section of the ruffle, and forming it into as much of a circle as I could. I let the rest of the shawl just bunch up in the center. (See the photo that sort of looks like a witch’s hat.) I spritzed the ruffle with water from a spray bottle (using a lid from a saucepan to keep the water from getting on the body of the shawl), and patted the ruffle into a smooth circular shape with my fingers. After it dried, I moved onto the next section and continued blocking in the same way until I reached the end of the ruffle. It came out just right!

Before blocking, it was 16 x 47”, after blocking it was 22 x 62”.

The yarn is pretty, but in the 3/4ths of the skein I used, there were 11 knots and two thick slubby areas. I wouldn’t use it again.

The pattern is easy - the only place you really need to pay attention is the first row of the second big lace section, to make sure you have all of your YO’s in the right place.

I loved the checklist section of the pattern - that’s all I used when knitting the shawl. Loved having the columns for number of stitches and percent completed.