After this repeat, I’ll finish up, beading the edging with the same iridescent beads I used on the last one.

I’ve added a few repeats to the pattern like I did with the Angel Shawl, and I’ve used a lot less yarn that I expected. I don’t know why I’m not getting the gauge that Evelyn does, but it doesn’t really matter. I just keep knitting ’til I get the size I want.

And now, I’m being me again.

So, I have one more shoulder shawl to finish this spring, and although I have the yarn (Artyarns again, in the most delicious shade of pink and white I have ever seen), I haven’t yet decided on a pattern. I was thinking of the Flower Basket, which is nice, but I can’t quite commit to it. There’s the Swallowtail, which can also be pretty. There’s any combination of lace patterns in Evelyn’s book I could do easily enough…

But there’s this luncheon set in the First Book of Modern Lace Knitting that has a gorgeous stitch pattern in it. Azalea, if you’re curious. The problem is, it’s knit in the round, it’s a hexagon (which is giving my brain the most grief as I’m trying to alter it), and I don’t like the edging. So I’d have to do some modifying. Some rather significant modifying, swatching, transition rows, etc. Fortunately, it’s charted, which will make some of this much easier.

It’ll be a lot more work. But I’ve loved this stitch since I first saw it. And if I figure out how to do it, and I like it, I can make one for me.

Or, I could just whip out another Evelyn shawl and be done.

Hmmmmm.

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