The description of the make-one-left stitch does not work for me. I slipped the stitch to the right needle, picked up the left leg of the stitch below, then slipped the slipped stitch back and knitted the two stitches (not together). The picked-up left leg was often the wrong way around on the needle when I picked it up, so I either put it the right way around or just knit into the back. Either way made it right.

I used German short rows after having trouble with picking up the wraps with a neat result. I didn’t remove the markers for the previous turn so when I went back to knit the two stitches of the German short row stitches together there was no doubt where they were.

I like this tutorial for the German short rows

A way to not mess up the short rows and allow counting while you have double stitches from the German short rows is to put a different type or color of marker at the center-of-the-shawl side of the double stitch - basically just not removing the marker you placed to tell yourself to turn at that stitch. Then when you knit to the end of the row, you can easily identify the double stitches and knit them together.

I went to visit my mom for her 98th birthday, and she told my sister and me that she was no longer knitting and offered us the yarn and tools she had left. This was one of two batches of yarn she had.

I hope it holds out to be enough yarn for the shawl. It should be enough as I have 660 yards and the pattern calls for 616.

The size 9 needle is used for the body of the shawl. The other two are just for casting on/off.

The three balls of yarn are from two dye lots. I am using the odd dye lot for the garter stitch portion, hoping that the change to the pattern will hide the difference. It will be good if the garter portion uses all of the one ball so I don’t have to worry about how to use it up otherwise. But I’ll figure something out.

Long tail cast on. Calculate yardage for the long tail: (Number of stitches) * (mm needle size) / 8 plus some extra for insurance . For 207 stitches on US 7 needle, the calculation is (207 * 7 / 8) = 181” plus 20” extra for Insurance, 201” = 16.75’ = 5 yards, 1’, 9”.

This worked, but I ended up having to do the garter stitch section three (!!) times, so I ended up using the technique where you have two balls of yarn. Instructions found here. The downside is having two tails to weave in; the upside is no calculating, no waste.

I put markers every ten stitches during the cast on so my count was accurate and I didn’t have to count over and over. Afterwards I moved them to separate the 13- and 5- stitch sections of the chart.

It took me a month between finishing the knitting and having the time to do the blocking. Blocking took a bit of time. I decided to do the five points on each bobble group, as in the official pictures for the pattern. I think I blocked it too much, so the elements are a bit too flat, and it didn’t need to be made bigger by stretching. I can always fix this by reblocking, but won’t for now.

The last picture is pre-blocking.