Have had this project on my list for quite a while. Will be using some yarn I purchased long ago: Yarn Love’s Elizabeth Bennet, Ancient Forest Colorway. Plan to use orange glass beads (Size 6 Seed Beads) to suggest the day lilies that grow along the roadsides in the summer.

Starting with the opaque green beads for the garter st section -- these are randomly sprinkled throughout the area and maybe look a bit like dew on the leaves. Saving the orange beads for the lacey section.

Using two skeins of yarn on the garter section and the third for the lace along the long edge. But I ran out of yarn for the lace border so I’m frogging just the lace portion, shifting from Celeano, to the lace border of Crocus -- translated from French -- and using this border to bind off as I go.

I have simplified the lace edging to conserve yarn and added beads into the chart.

Joining the lace to the shawl:

• Join = P2 together on WS (one st from edging, one st from body of shawl), turn work
• 1/1LCS on RS = Slip first st onto cable needle and hold in front of work, knit next st, slip st from cable needle, continue on with row. Twisting the first two stitches is actually done quite easily without a cable needle. (Both the twisting of stitches and the slipping of the stitch rather than knitting it helps tighten up the join and produces a tidy, braided appearance.)

I needed a multiple of 3 body stitches per lace border repeat. In the last 1/4th of the body stitches remaining, I counted to see how many stitches I had. I was actually one stitch short of a multiple of 3, so I knit three sts together (two from the body and one from the edging) at that point in the binding off and, in the same manner, took the other extra stitch out at the very end of the shawl body row. You can’t even see these adjustment spots…

I squeaked by with 8 g of yarn remaining!