I actually knit this a while ago, but hadn’t gotten around to uploading photos of the finished project. I really enjoyed this shrug. I saw it knitted up at my LYS, tried it on, and fell in love. So comfy! So girly! Not too difficult for someone who’d never knitted lace! Shamefully, I was broke, so I copied the pattern out of the book at my LYS (but later bought it! So all is forgiven); no one wants to be stuck with the sad shameful reminder of a pattern they couldn’t handle, in a book full of other things they’re not sure they’ll ever knit (however much I covet that suit, probably not going to happen). Fortunately, it turns out that Knit 2 Together is full of good stuff, both for wearing and for not wearing. Mom’s now doing the raglan hoodie for my little brother.
It went a lot faster than I’d expected, frankly. There were a lot of swear words knitted into my lace, but I did learn how to tink quickly and accurately, and how to feel out the pattern. Altogether, I think I knitted 84 inches of that lace: 60 for the border and 12 at each sleeve. Then the middle’s just two by two rib. The most interesting part was probably the yarn. I’ve inherited a lot of stash from my grandmother and my great-grandmother, via my mother as she fleshed out her stash with softer and better yarns, so I ended up knitting this in some fuzzy pink acrylic weaving yarn that I found on a cone. I was afraid I’d run out, but I finished the last seams with about two feet left on the cone, so all went well (this is my excuse for not swatching). The finished product is rather frothier than the Blue Sky alpaca/cotton version in the book, but it’s still comfortable and cozy, and the sherbet pink delicacy of it compensates for the beautiful drape of the heavier yarn.
