I finished up this shawl on Sunday - knit the whole thing in 4 days. It was a lot of fun and I love the colors. I did screw up though when I was putting together my spreadsheet. I missed a repeat of the Body Pattern 2 / Leaf Pattern 4 and didn't realize it until I was on Leaf Pattern 8 and the short row instructions did not make sense, so I looked back at the pattern and my spreadsheet and realized what I had done. I improvised a little to get to the end, and used up every bit of yarn that I had to get there. In fact I ran out of skein 7 of the pink and had to finish the last row of that Body Pattern section with a little bit of skein 6, and I ran out of the green a few stitches from the end of the bind off and finished the bind off with the remnants of a pink skein.
Despite the odd shape, the shawl is surprisingly wearable, at least it is with the extra repeats that I did. I'm not sure how good it would be without that extra length. I wear it in the orientation you see in the photo, with the furthest edge at my neck. I do think the shape is very cool. I like these organic leaf shapes.
Pattern: Mrs. Watson by Martina Behm
Yarn: The Unique Sheep kit in a heavy sport weight
Needle: US 6 (4 mm)
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