I’m making this in doubled lace weight yarn; I bought six skeins of it in 2015 to replace some of the dozens of skeins I lost in the house fire. I’m changing colors by holding one of each in my hand and knitting them together; you can see it in the second photo. I have had this design in my mind for some time, and thought I’d better cast on before moths ate the whole damn batch.
06-05-2019
On Cadmium, aka yellow, the third of six colors. I don’t know why I’m so hellbent on this project, but I am…
06-10-2019
It just dawned on me--yes, just dawned--that this is a rainbow shawl. Knit during Pride. Well then. 
Swear to ghu I did not mean to knit a Pride shawl. When I grew up, rainbows did not mean Pride, and so I see them initially with a certain level of cluelessness, every time.
06-11-2019
So…I renamed the shawl the Pride Shawl. It seemed apropos.
06-11-2019
I discovered I did NOT buy this yarn as replacement for my lost stash! I bought it the year before the fire! Who knows why! 
06-22-2019
Well into the fourth color, the Esperanza Verde (green). It’s coming along. The fabric is dreamy, but I’m over it as for the colors. I know I’ll be back in love with it when I’m through. I’ve made SO many errors on this shawl that it’s killing my joy, or would if I let it. I won’t, though. I just keep knitting.
09-30-2019
Yeah, so the errors in the lace knitting pretty much killed the project. I’m back on it now, and I’m going to finish it, but I’m not doing any more lace. It’s all just garter stitch. That yarn, though. Omigod. It is SO soft. I just adore it.
10-14-2019
And finis! I made this shawl much bigger than written, and I’m glad. Next time, she says with the wisdom of a woman who should have known better, I’ll use stitch markers to separate my patterns, and I’ll have a better sense of where the colors change.
08-21-2020
And now, this is one of seven shawls with moth holes in them. 
I think I can fix this one; the hole is relatively small. I wish I could fix the one they ruined; it was my favorite.
04-23-2021
So there are actually a series of small mothholes; luckily, they’re right around where I’m going to divide the shawl in two. Yes, I’m dividing it where the yellow completely does not go into the green. That’s about halfway, and leaves two pretty good-sized, color-coherent shawls. I’m actually rather pleased about it; it’s absolutely gorgeous yarn that I’m still in love with, and I really want to be wearing this, but since it a. has mothholes and b. is really grating color-wise, dividing it is best.
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