• While I may not have loved making the first version of this very lovely FO, I appear to be making it again. That’s the power of a great shawl pattern that uses up just the right amount of yarn (well, I thought I had enough…)

• I am definitely preferring working with this yarn (vs the J Asselin Fino I used the last time). This is a delicious yarn that walks a line between rustic and luxurious.

• 2.75g per row will get me 8 more rows and 72g for the border. I’m hoping each row takes less than 2.5 so that I have a bit of wiggle room. Starting weight of ball: 94g after 2R you’ll need at least 89g remaining, and preferably 90. If you think it’s not going to work out, you’ll have to consider ripping back to 269st and making the small…

• I will make this shawl with the Sonder Lux Sport 3.28y/g. I have 191g or 626.5y. According to the math, I should almost be able to make it as I will use less yardage/g with the Sonder than the Fino (albeit not by much!).

119g (62.3%) (390y)
72g (37.7%) (236y) - 626y

• But I do have to go up a needle size give that the Sonder is a sport-weight and the Fino is fingering (though not fine fingering). And that may well use up more yarn than I have. I could either just wing it, and stop at the size small if I estimate that I will not have enough to get to the medium once I get to the full stitch count for the body in small OR I can use up some fingering - a grey that also has a very green undertone. This yarn is speckled but very lightly. I estimate that I can do the first ~5g with that yarn and then complete the shawl on US5 with the Sonder Lux. We’ll see how it goes.Note: You can use up to 25g of ball 2 of the Sonder before starting the border…

• Good thing I was able to pick up another hank of this yarn at Knit City Toronto. Because, as of exactly half way through the border, I should have 36g of yarn (half of 72g) but I have 31g. I also had only 71g when I started the border, as I needed the additional gram to finish the body.

• If I’d used the entirety of the Natural Sock (I started with 17g, I could have avoided purchasing a new ball of the Sonder. But it would have been unpleasant yarn chicken and, given that there is a bit of distinction between the yarns - namely that the Natural Sock is a slightly warmer/more yellow grey than the Sonder Lux - I wouldn’t want there to be a significant hemisphere of it or it might start to mess with the overall look of things. Hilariously though, I could have just used the Sonder, given that I bought another ball, and left the Natural Sock out altogether.

• As it is I used 13g of the new ball (which was exactly 100g) so I was 13g short for the size medium in sport-weight, prob because I went up a needle size.

• For future reference: If you make this again in a sport-weight yarn, go up a needle size to US5 and make sure that you have, at a minimum 210-215g / 700y. I’d even go with 725y to account for heavier sport-weight yarns (or maybe even a light DK…)