The design is beautiful. The pattern is clearly charted, with few words of instruction. It’s obvious already that this shawl will need blocking, so I don’t recommend using acrylic yarn.
The Malabrigo is nice, soft wool but the difference in shade between two balls of the same dye lot is striking. I’m glad I started the shawl a couple of times to try out different techniques or I wouldn’t have noticed until it was too late.
So I’m restarting and this time I’ll alternate between the two different balls as I go.
Modifications
Started with Magic Ring
Using 3ch instead of 2ch for turning chain
On second to last round, using treble crochet instead of double treble.
19-02-2016
I don’t have enough yarn left to finish, so I’m stopping at row 44 and doing a cut down version of the edging. I have 19gms left and I’m using 7gms per row, so I’d better not go for anything too fancy!
22-02-2016
And I’m done. I missed a double treble and five chains on the second to last row, so I put them in afterwards with a bit of fudging.
I have very little yarn left. In the end I ripped back to row 38 and did the edging from there as I really think the edging adds a lovely touch.
Even before blocking, it’s very pretty. This yarn is very springy and soft. A less variegated yarn would look better but I’m still very pleased with it.
The picture on the wooden floor is pre-blocking.
23-02-2016
Blocking is opening the shawl right up.
I used pins to position it, then removed them to make sure I wasn’t over-stretching it. (I don’t like hard blocking.)
The points I pulled out gently, holding the edge of the shawl and just opening up the point. Even without pinning the difference is amazing.
2018-09-18
Remade the edging with beads.
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