Blocked out to 15” x 60”. Absolutely beautiful. Can be worn as a scarf, a stone, a cowl (shown double looped with ends joined with bone crochet hook/shawl pin), a shrug (“sleeves” joined with a series of two buttons joined together to form cufflink-like attachments) or a cape with a short edge similarly joined to the end of the opposite long edge. Eyelets are so useful!

Mods: other than knitting flat to different dimensions I knitted most of the 15 st cockle shells through the back loops. After doing the first three (purple) repeats through the front loops I did the first of the green cockle shells through the back loop kind of by mistake. Although it was mechanically rather more tricky than through the front loops it gave, I thought, a better-looking shell on the right side.

Any lingering illusion that I’d get a fourth set of the colour repeats out of the yarn was comprehensively dashed after the first set of the third repeat - less than 5g of each colour left. But I think it’ll be wide enough if blocked aggressively.

This is a re-versioned BMC kit bought from Kate Davies/Jamieson & Smith some time ago with nine shades of yarn in 25g balls. I want a stole rather than a cowl, but one which can perhaps be fastened and worn as a cowl or shrug too.

After much thought I’m knitting the pattern flat, to 60” in length, no mirroring. With 2/3 of the original length I should be able to add 1/2 to the width - three sets of colour repeats giving 13.5” or thereabouts.