I have an FO to show today.  Yesterday, I dug it out of my WIP bin where it has languished for the last couple of months and took a long look at it. It really was all but completed so I bound off, made a decision I’ve been see-sawing on for weeks and finally, at about 11:30 last night, finished the last stitch.

With great pleasure, may I present:

Thank you, Stephanie, for such a lovely pattern and for sharing it with us :)

And thanks to Laura, who finished the one she was making for her mother (and a beautiful job she did, too!) and thanks to Barb who kept asking me what had happened to the periwinkle shawl :)  Heheh, now you know!

It was the edging - actually the idea of picking up umpty-zillion stitches for a knitted edging that made me feel faint.  But while I was looking around for ideas yesterday, I remembered the “ruffles” discussion we’d had a couple of weeks ago and besides that, Barb had mentioned a ruffled scarf that she had just completed.

So the idea was born.

I had worked the shawl on size 10 needles so I dug out a size 10 crochet hook and crocheted dcs all the way around (with extras at the point).  Next row was 2 dcs in every dc of the first row.  The third row was crocheted even - 1 dc in every dc.  The last row was a pdc in dc, 2 dc in next dc and repeat ending with a pdc (picot double crochet - dc, ch 2, sc in tip of dc).  The picot is intended to be subtle, I didn’t want anything big hanging off the edges, so that’s why it’s only two chains long.  Those four rows took at least eight hours to do and used every bit as much yarn as the body of the shawl did.

I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am with this.  I look at it and can’t believe it came from my needles (and hook).  It does still need to be blocked as the i-cord bind-off has an unfortunate tendency to roll.  If blocking doesn’t do the trick, some more crochet may be in order :)

Unlike the Landscape shawl that I did last year, this one is both wide enough (I haven’t measured it but probably around 80”) and long enough so that I don’t feel that it’s skimpy.  That really doesn’t have anything to do with the pattern though, that was just me, determined not to stop until I was sure it was going to be what I wanted.  It is exactly what I wanted and I keep looking at it and petting it and not quite believing it :)

On to blocking :)