FO Crystalline Shawl

Fresh off the needles this morning! I maded this for me ma. She was so worth the stabbing pains in my wrists.

Pattern: Crystalline Shawl by Jade Sapphire
Needles: US sz6 Addi Natura
Yarn: Mountain Colors Bearfoot in Moose Creek colorway (about 1 2/3 skeins)

Full shawl laid out after being unpinned.

Close up of upper portion.

Close up of lower portion with edging.

Notes:

I started this shawl about two weeks before school started (about the end of August). I zipped through the first half in one weekend, and then I just sort of picked it up here and there when I thought about it or had time. This is a painfully easy pattern. Nonetheless, I still managed to fudge things here and there. My biggest mistake made was forgetting a yarn over now and again. As long as I caught it on the next knit or purl round, it was simple to pick up a YO as if it were never missed.

The only alterations made to the pattern were the dropping of the last 4 rows of pattern on the wide bottom edge. Reason? After knitting back and forth on 300+ stitches for what seemed like fricking FOREVER I was just sick of the damned thing and wanted to be done with it. The edging as written did contain two mistakes, and that was remedied by placing an extra decrease on the rounds where it was SUPPOSED to be decreasing to make the points (or I suppose valley).

Blocking this thing was a pain in the ass. It took about 4 false starts before I was finally able to get everything where it should be. Despite the few quibbles this was still a fun, slightly mindless pattern to knit. I’d definitely suggest for anyone that was just venturing into lace and wanted something more challenging than, say, Branching Out.