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Next I started drawing out the lace pattern in excel. I drew out a skeleton of the YO's that I wanted and then added decreases around the pattern.
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I wanted to check out the decreases were working, so I knit a swatch of each of the three sections. You can see my markings and corrections in the paper above.
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Finally, I knew that I wanted there to be some fun points at the end of the shawl. I also wanted to fill in the end with a bit more design for the edging. In the following swatch, I tried out some additional "V's" versus diamonds. (I ended up going with the V's.)
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Of course, Indy was very interested in every step of this process.
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This shawl was really fun to design, but it was even more fun to knit. Why don't you purchase the knitting pattern and try it out yourself?