Clark was my available model today for mom’s shawl.

It’s very pretty. Angel Lace Shawl by Evelyn Clark. Size 5 bamboo needle. 1 ball + of Misti Alpaca laceweight yarn. 15 pattern repeats. Copper core, iridescent seed beads in champagne and light blue for the edging. I have a good portion of the second ball left, so I’m making a little neck scarf with lots of colorful beads.

I’m basing the pattern off of the Bejeweled Cats Paw shrug in A Gathering Of Lace (book). I had to monkey with it a little bit. First of all, there’s an errata for the chart online, and I’m not knitting it in the round, and I’m not pre-stringing the beads, and I didn’t like how they were falling in the pattern (probably because I wasn’t pre-stringing. I bet that changes the look) so I moved them over a stitch.

The knit on icord selvedge is nice and tidy and the whole thing will look really, really pretty when blocked and open. It’s a fun little knit. The thought of having a partial skein of yellow laceweight in my stash for the rest of eternity was getting to me, and I thought that if I didn’t use up it now, I never would.