I finished!

The official name of the pattern is Emily Shawl. I think of it as my lime green spring shawl.

I finished!

This shawl was interesting to knit. It used a different sort of construction (for me). I’ve done rectangular shawls. I’ve done triangular shawls where you begin in the top center and each row gets longer and the shawl is symmetrical like an isosceles triangle. This shawl is a right triangle. You start at one point with just a few stitches and work towards the long edge.

The knitting was simple and the pattern was easy to follow. This part went quickly.

The bind off used here is the sewn bind off. I looked up how to do this and it is quite easy too. Once you’ve finished knitting, you need to cut your yarn so you’ve got a tail three times as long as the edge you are binding off. Remember, you end this shawl on the long edge. So if that’s 50”, your tail needs to be 150” or over 12’. You’ve got to use a tapestry needle and sew through two stitches in one direction then one stitch in the other direction for each stitch you bind off. The difficulty is pulling that 12’ of yarn through the stitches. There is ample opportunity for the yarn to get tangled up. It took forever for me to finish the bind off! It’s a very nice and stretchy bind off, but it was quite a bit of work to do over this long edge.

It doesn't look like an egg carton anymore!

Used about 330 yards of fingering weight yarn.