This pattern is well written, easy to knit, and fun to knit, too. But blocking the finished shawl is unbelievably frustrating, which is why I gave it only one star.

I have knitted and blocked dozens of lace shawl of many different shapes (including crescent) using several different methods, but nothing I’ve ever done comes even close to the difficulty I had trying to block this shawl.

It’s supposed to be crescent shaped, but when I tried to block it as a crescent, the bottom part of the shawl bunched together. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get the lace to open up. It looked awful. Finally, out of frustration, I blocked it as a rectangle.

I knitted this as a wedding shawl for my soon-to-be DIL, and I wanted it to be perfect. It didn’t turn out quite the way I thought it would, but I will say that the lace pattern is gorgeous and the shawl is beautiful even though the shape is wrong.

I have seen pictures of this shawl being blocked as a crescent with perle cotton run through the loops on the neckline to shape it into a crescent, but I just couldn’t get my shawl to behave that way. Perhaps it was the yarn I used, but I’ve knitted many a shawl with Zephyr and I know that it takes aggressive blocking very well.

All in all, I would advise against knitting this pattern. I will never knit it again. :-(