This shawl is what I made with the alpaca yarn in the previous post. I ended up leaving it as singles. The real life color is much more amber, though not as amber as in the previous post, certainly not as muted as this shot which used my flash.
As this was my first ever shawl, I chose to keep the pattern dead simple. It’s a Josephine shawl, the pattern is pretty much do a yarn over right before the end of each second row, and knit the rest. This forms a right angle triangle, which rotated, becomes the shawl. I appreciated the simplicity of the pattern, it allowed me to take my knitting around and not having to remember what stage I was at in a pattern.
This also allowed me to test out my stitch markers! I used one to mark a few stitches behind the yarn over increase. This allowed me to knit absentmindedly, but to pay attention when it was time to do something. I learned that it’s very important to have stitch markers that are lightweight (or appropriate in weight to the project and needles at least), which may mean using plastic beads or wood beads in lieu of the prettier and more varied glass beads.