10shawls2010 #4

As I was freezing during the plays at the Utah Shakespearean Festival (with roasting temps outside!), I thought to myself how nice would it be to have a summer shawl over my shoulders. So I started this shawl as soon as possible. It’s late for this year, but I hope to use it again soon as I miss the place already.
The plays are DELIGHTFUL!

If anybody’s interested, here are my changes to make it bigger.

Oh my,… looking at your own notes 2 weeks after completing the project is not a pretty sight.
I have some what seems to be random numbers all over the pattern, and they make very little sense now :)
First and foremost, I would like to say that the pattern is great and results in a very cute shawl.
I did start knitting it with the suggested 5mm needles, but it produced a sloppy fabric from my yarn. And since it’s plenty drapey on its own (with 20% SeCcell), I frogged it and changed to 4.5mm.
I also tried to distribute m1 as evenly as I could for it was not the case in the pattern. I don’t have all of them written down (or I can not decipher them), but as example in row 55 -
k3, yo, k4, (m1,k5) 22 times, k3, yo, k3
changed to
k3, yo, k6, (m1,k5) 22 times, k1, yo, k3
Don’t know how much it matters, but I like it that way.
Similar thing was done in row 65, only then I realized my shawl would be too small if I switch to Section 6 at this point. Frogged rows 65 and 66, and did the following, thus repeating the section 4 with more stitches -
Row 65: k3, yo, (k8,m1) 9 times, k11, (m1,k8) 9 times, yo, k3 - 181st
Row 66: k3, p175, k3
Rows 67-78 similar to 43-54, only with more stitches.
You will have 25 butterflies in that section and 193st after row 78.
Row 79: k3,yo, evenly increase 13 st, yo, k3 - 208st total
Row 80: k3, p1, k200, p1, k3
Section 6 -
Row 81: like row 67 in patt, only repeat section with passing st 66 times instead of 55;
continue following the pattern with more stitches.
I added 2 extra repeats of knotted openwork.
If you do the same, at the end of this section you will have 237 stitches.
Section 7 -
You can follow the pattern and double the stitches.
I did not want my edge to be that ‘ruffly’, so only increased every 3rd stitch like so - k1, (kfb, k2) repeat until 2 st left, kfb, k1 316 st on the needles.
Continue as per pattern.
Start BO row with 1 st bound off, then continue as in pattern.