I was very impressed with the pattern - I think figuring out how to increase 6 stitches on every right side row while keep the lace pattern intact takes some skill - and am impressed the designer offered all that work up for free. Thank you!

It had been a while since I knit a lace shawl, and it made me very happy to have one on the needles again. I cast this on at the start of a vacation in late June 2010 but found I needed to have the charts handy at all times, so it was not a great grab-and-go project for me. Although that did improve with familiarity, I still needed to look at the chart at least once every row.

Fourth pic from bottom shows the shawl after the set-up chart and two repeats of the main 24-row lace pattern. The pattern calls for knitting 3 repeats of the main chart. I wanted a larger shawl, and was using two skeins of sock yarn, so was aiming for 4 or 5 repeats before doing the edging chart.

8/31/2010: I have finished four repeats of the lace and have 11 g of my first skein of yarn left. I’m now hoping I can make it to 6 repeats of the lace pattern before adding the edging.

9/8/2010: Nothing like a little vacation knitting to make serious headway on a project that did not get the love it deserved. I finished the shawl on the plane on the way home. I knit the bind off very loosely, using 7s, and it looks a bit ruffly right now - hopefully blocking will clean that up.

I knit 5.5 repeats of the lace and had to adjust a little bit of the edging to accommodate that - a chart showing my mods can be found here: http://www.lauratreadway.com/knitting/dane-edging.pdf. I also only knit 6 rows of the edging before binding off (although the chart indicates all 8). I used almost two entire skeins. There might be enough left for a square of my sock yarn blanket, but I’m not sure yet.

10/11/2010: Finally blocking. It measured 30” x 66” before blocking.

Shawl #5 of 10 shawls in 2010