This is my first shawl for the 10 Shawls in 2010 Challenge. It was everything I was looking for: quick, easy, satisfying, and uses yarn from my stash. I love how it turned out.

Pattern: Traveling Woman by Liz Abinante
Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Merino
Needles: US 6 Circulars
Notes: This is a wonderful free pattern. I highly recommend it. It uses a single skein of sock yarn (well, if it’s one of the skeins that you make a pair of socks from) and it’s super quick to knit. I think it took me just as long to soak and block this shawl as it did to knit it.

I followed the pattern until I finished Chart B, then I added 6 more rows. I love this style of edging AND I wanted to use up a bit more of the yarn.

Original skein: 117 grams
W/ Chart A finished: 61 grams remain
W/ Chart B finished: 33 grams remain
W/ my additional rows done: 17.5 grams remain
So that means I used 357 yards.

I see I’ve forgotten to measure it – I’ll come back and add the finished measurements here and to my Ravelry project page this evening.

ETA: Finished measurements are 58 inches wide by 16 inches deep. These were taken a week after it was unpinned so the pinned measurements were probably a bit larger.

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