I still wanted to knit my mom a shawl for her birthday, though. And I found the perfect one on the first site I looked at. The Interweave Knits summer issue focuses on lace, and the Staff Projects: Sweet Somethings includes a shawlette (yes, it's actually called a 'shawlette'), in a yarn that's almost an exact match for the Makalu DK Cashmere I got. Yippee! Now I actually had twice as much yarn as needed! Since I wanted something slightly bigger than a shawlette, something closer to an actual shawl, I extended the pattern a bit. At row 60, I kept going to add an extra 6 stitches to each side (6 being the number of stitches in the horizontal lace pattern repeat). And in the lower lace border, I did an extra 4 rows (1 repeat of the vertical lace pattern). And ta daa! It's finished. About 2 weeks late, but that's okay.



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