I posted this a while ago as a WIP, but forgot to mention I’d finished it.
The shawl is the Icelandic feather and fan one from Cheryl Oberle’s “Folk Shawls”, knitted in New Lanark Mills’ aran-weight wool in (IIRC) gritstone. It was left over from an earlier cardigan.
The shawl starts in a fairly standard way from the centre top, just at the back of your neck, and you increase at either edge and twice in the middle every second row. However, after a while you start increasing at the edges on the way back too, meaning that instead of increasing 4st for every two rows, it’s 6st. This gives the shawl long trailing ends that it wouldn’t otherwise have.
I’m not 100% sure how I feel about the shape of it. It’s not quite as cozy and nice to wear on the sofa while watching TV as a plain triangular one, but it does work better in public, worn sort of scrunched in the centre and draped like a scarf. I think its scarf-like properties would work better in a lighter weight yarn, though. I enjoyed knitting the pattern a lot, so I will probably try it again in something more lightweight, another time.
