No name as yet. This yarn reminds me very much of the first ashfall from Mt St Helens. I had another yarn in mind for this at first, but I have two tubes of beads for that one and not sure I can figure out where to place them on here. Maybe I will get it figured out on this one and make the other and they can become something poetic like ‘from ashes rises the phoenix part 1 and 2’, because the other yarn is a pretty pinky-peachy-orangey tonal. Anyway, this first one is intended to be an everyday, around-the-house thing for spring or fall. Enough fol-de-rol, time to get the tips set up and cast on. :)

05/15: Decided to run beads on the point and ‘leaf’ spines; I missed out on the second lace row, but not gonna rip or tink back for it. Will be placed on purl rows, above the CDDs, beginning row 4.
Beads are TOHO round, 8/0, matte iris gray, have a faint blue/purple iridescence, are darker than this very light gray yarn.

05/20: Short row time! :) My nupp philosophy: I am slowly coming to terms and making my peace with nupps. I’ve never denied they really add oomph to lace knits, but they can be a difficult, fiddly mess. Enough Susanna shawls and now they create less anxiety in me. I like doing them the old-school way, purling the loops on the return row. They lay better for me that way. And I have learned the way to do them (for a 7-stitch nupp) is to knit, yox2, knit, yox2, knit, yox2, knit. On the purl back row, you unwrap that extra yo and adjust each stitch as you go so they pull down evenly and are uniform in length, then purl the seven loops. Don’t even try to tell me the crochet hook method is better or easier. I only have two hands. What planet did you come from?

05/25: Ok, frogged several days ago. Somehow I ended up with a neck edge of approximately 15 inches. WTH? I made no mistakes with the lace or the short rows and was feeling almost smug. Lesson learned. I have bumped needles up to US10-1/2 and 8 and used Susanna’s backward loop cast on (large needle), purl back on small needle, begin lace chart. I am again taking it like the turtle, slow and steady so I don’t screw up somewhere in the process. Frogging allowed me to get the beads started on row 2 of the lace. XfingersX

05/29: Short row time, round two. Fingers still X’d.

05/30: With half the stitches worked, running lifeline and going to change from +3 st to +2 st on remaining short rows. XfingersX

05/31: Bound off as loosely as possible, I have a straightened neck edge now of about 31 inches. Will block and get final measurements tomorrow and call it good. Preliminarily (what, Chrome? that’s a word in my vocabulary) this looks more like a mini-cape than a shawlette, but really hard to say without the wet blocking. 26 grams, about 230 yds (first round was 23 grams, about 200 yds)

06/01: Blocked at 14” depth by 41” width. Width measured from second point to second point, as my shape came out a little bit past half-circle.