Apparently the link on the pattern page isn’t working now but the link I printed it from still works. I think they are moving things around on their website.

I usually tend to work tight so I’m used to going up a hook or two to get gauge but for this I am having to go smaller. Go figure. It will still come out bigger than the indicated size but I can’t really go to a smaller hook with this yarn. What the hay, I think it will be perfect anyway.

I get 19” -ish wide with the F hook (3.75 mm)
Gauge as stated for this pattern is 6 V-sts = 4”: 6 rows = 4”. I get 5.5 inches for 6 v-sts and 6 rows equals 4.5”
Whattttttevahhh

You just work until you have 54” so I am going with the smaller hook/smaller open spaces. I would recommend making the lace panels first and then make the number of V stitches needed to make the middle section the same width as the lace panel. My lace panels were shorter than the middle section so that made sewing it on a challenge. The pattern for the middle section is a multiple of 3 + 2 with one more chain for turning. The pattern calls for 21 V stitches so that is 65 +1 for turning. Next time I make this I will probably only do 19 V stitches which is 60 chains.

I used up my first stein of yarn and got about 25” in length
Two skeins of yarn (minus about 8 ft) finished up the body of the shawl.

The edging looks complicated but if you just follow each step exactly like it says it does work out very nicely. I really like this pattern!!

I have noticed that some people were confused by this edging. It just seems more complicated than it is because it doesn’t work from the bottom up like normal. It works like an S (if you turn it lol) from side to side. I swear it is like the “just do exactly what I say and no one will get hurt” speech during a robbery. You work short rows snaking up and down until you get to the end and then you just single crochet along the top edge (which is really the side of the work) to give it a nice straight edge. Then you get to sew it on - joy. ;)

I have decided to make my niece one too…. and I’m thinking I might need a green one.

When I finished the first lace edging panel and single crocheted along the top side I realized that I didn’t like how it looked on that one side (left side of lace panel). I think it looks odd the way it sticks out like an earlobe so I decided to add a few stitches to carry the open spaces down so it doesn’t look so odd. Then I just slip stitched back up again and then did the second row of sc to the other end to finish it off. Of course I just played it by ear the first time so now I’ve got to do it again….. and try to get my ears to match haha

This is just my extra thing I did to make the left edge not look like it sticks out funny. Just skip this if you like how it looks. If you look at the pictures you can see what I’m talking about

So here is what I am doing. After single crocheting along the top edge the first time I chained 5 (which will make one more open “box” on the end of the row) and then dc at the base of what looks like a double crochet (It is actually 5 chains from the very first row of 14 chains with a shell in the third chain - double crochet in the spot below the shell (see picture “extra stitches pic 1”), chain 2 and then single crochet into next dc (see extra stitches pic 2 & 3), chain two and the slip stitch into first loop (see extra stitches pic 4 & 5). Chain 1, turn and slip stitch into next space and on up the side to the chain 5 loop. Slip stitch, 2 sc into chain 5 loop, chain 2, 2 double crochet (still in loop) and that brings you back to your sc row at the top (and this is also the perfect spot to start crocheting over your yarn tail). Single crochet back down the end of the row and finish off.