Planning to use fingering weight rather than worsted; since it starts with a tab and I’ll be knitting until the yarn runs out it should work out fine. The stitch patterning looks like something that won’t be overpowered by the yarn’s built-in striping/colour changes.

August 26/17: Followed the advice on the TECHKnitting blog to use a much smaller needle for this pattern’s recommended cast-on (2.5 mm Heavy Metal), then switched to 3.75 mm Black Nickel tips. Twelve rows finished and so far I’m pleased with the feel of the fabric so will carry on with those needles. My first time working with this yarn and my oh my, it’s lovely stuff. Now just impatient to see the first colour change happen.

September 2/17: Have finished second time through Chart A and am on the verge of change to fifth colour.

I’ve noticed that the first three stripes in my skein are different from what’s shown on the Gauge Dyeworks webpage and from the other projects made with this colourway. Not a complaint as I like it very much; instead of the rose/orange/yellow preceding the bright yellow-green I have a dull lilac followed by khaki and then a moss green that just begins to develop a rosy tan shading before the switch to the bright yellow-green.

Sept. 4/17: Completed second time through the three charts. 80 grams of yarn used, 106 grams of yarn remaining.

Sept. 7/17: Colour #7 (blue) begun in Row 9 of third time through Chart A. Blue-purple next and then purple.

Sept. 11/17: Colour #8 (blue-purple) began just after the centre of Row 27, third time through Chart B. 70 grams of yarn remaining at end of this row.

Oct. 1/17: Finished Row 44 of third time through Chart C. Change to final (ninth) colour happened near the end of the row. Stitch count: 595 (297 on each side + 1 centre stitch). Hoping that remaining yarn is enough to take me to end of Chart C, then portion of Chart A and rows of garter + picot bindoff according to official finish of pattern … theoretically the pattern’s picot spacing should work and and I won’t have to recalculate it.

Oct. 1/17 further calculations: Row 49 & 50 of Chart C have each used 1 gram of yarn. 28 grams remaining. 17 more chart pattern rows left to complete + 8 garter stitch rows = 25 grams, leaving 3 grams for bindoff. Since the rows are still increasing they’ll become slightly more than 1 gram apiece as I go on; I suspect I’m looking at only 7 garter stitch rows and a plain bindoff instead of the picot bindoff. Could end the patterning earlier, do the full garter stitch border and have enough yarn for picots but I’d have to do the math to recalculate their spacing (I’ve already tried several times to figure out the stitch count/picot spacing relationship with the pattern’s official numbers and I keep ending up with fractions instead of an exact number … obviously I’m not grokking the count/picot correctly.

Oct. 1/17 calculations part 2: Chart C rows 51-52 used up 4 grams of yarn so that’s that for the previous plan. Since this is the end of Chart C I’m going to skip the final repeat of Chart A and just go ahead with the garter stitch border, probably making it a little deeper than the 8 rows the pattern calls for. Will make up my mind to picot or not to picot later.
Updated: 1 row of Chart A knitted due to realization that garter border needs to begin with a wrong side row and I wasn’t about to tink back row 52; first garter row knitted after that.

Oct. 31/17: Time for yarn chicken! Completed 6 rows of garter stitch for the bottom border and, weighed the remaining yarn and have 7 grams left, so going to bind off. Using Elastic Bind Off on page 170 of Cast On, Bind Off since I know from experience that it’ll stretch nicely when I block the lace.

Nov. 2/17: Bind off finished with 2 grams to spare! And half of that is undyed yarn from end of skein (note to self: trim off that white in future instead of making it the core of the ball; having that as part of the weight throws off the calculations)

January 5/18: Blocked! I don’t know if it was the stitch pattern, the yarn, or the combination of the two but when I laid the damp shawl down to pin it out for blocking the lace pattern opened itself out all by itself! No stretching/hard blocking required! All I ended up doing was was threading a blocking wire through the spine stitches to ensure it was straight, pattting/nudging a teensy bit of edge waviness into smooth curves, and using a grand total of four T-pins (top and bottom of spine and the two tips so that I had fixed points to orient my edge smoothing). The final fabric has amazing drape (see drop-the-shawl-on-the-bed photo #3 from top) and a very subtle halo that just slightly softens the colour changes of the stripes.