This is a beautiful pattern. Even with this acrylic yarn, the fabric is lovely. I know I’ll need to make another with some wool-based fingering when the opportunity presents itself.

It does require a fair amount of attention to stay on track:

• On each forward pass, I read the previous row’s return pass in reverse to make sure I was correctly identifying the increases and decreases and that there were the right number of stitches in between.
• On each forward pass, it helped to know that the correct number of stitches before the first increase (or decrease) was the sum of the numbers in the last two columns of the chart (for the row just completed).
• I also counted the number of stitches on the hook after each forward pass (row number plus one).

My calculations tell me that I’ll be close to 25% of the way to row 140 after row 69, just over 50% of the way after row 99 and about 75% of the way after row 120.

Update. I put this aside for a while and have just now come back to it (a year to the day since I started), starting with the return pass of row 107. I quickly reviewed the instructions and recalled how to do everything…except the initial increase, which I didn’t remember as being problematic. Seven rows and a very messy stretch of edge later, I went back to the appendix and saw that I was trying to make the increase in the first stitch on the hook, instead of in the next stitch.

I debated whether to keep going and try to “pretty up” that edge later or to undo the last seven rows. I opted for the latter and am glad I did. The shawl is much too pretty for unsightly “fixes.”

Bind-Off. I worked a total of 150 rows, then bound off as indicated. I detached the long cord, though, so it wouldn’t pull as I worked the single crochet edge.

Blocking. The bind-off edge seemed to have extra fabric, so I pinned out with points at each of the increases. The scallops aren’t as rounded as the ones formed by the pattern, but they continue the theme.