So glad I decided not to go for something more fancily patterned for this one of a kind yarn; simple garter stitch is putting all the focus where it should be … on the yarn and its colours. My guess at best needle size has been spot-on … getting a lovely, bordering on decadent, plushy-yet-drapy fabric. :-)

April 30, 2015: Was determined to use every bit of this lovely yarn so, since this shawl doesn’t require any aggressive blocking/stretching and thus can have a firm edge, had decided I would be using the Yarn Harlot’s crochet hook bind-off. Ran out of yarn two-thirds of the way into the second row after my 34th “tooth”, grabbed the crochet hook, got to the last stitch and THEN realized that the reason one does this bind-off over a completed row is so that your yarn tail can be used to anchor the last stitch while weaving in. My yarn tail was taunting me from partway along the row. Happily that tail was about six centimetres long so I left the crochet hook in the last stitch temporarily, did a minimal weave-in at the two thirds mark (after all, that edge doesn’t have to survive stretching, that final stitch in the partial last row is already part-anchored by being bound off, plus the yarn has a bit of self-cling) and had about four centimetres of yarn left to trim off and use to anchor the last stitch and weave in for security. Then wove in the tail at the beginning, and the trim from that is my only leftover … a mere four centimetres of yarn! (which I could, in the unlikely event I start feeling insecure about that last stitch, use to reinforce that anchor/weave in)

May 1, 2015: FO photos. I don’t think it’s possible to take a photo that does the colours in this yarn justice … what you see here is a pale ghost of the real thing. Fourth photo from top shows the spot where my final row ended 2/3 of the way across … only visible extremely close up.