This is a red-letter day of mega celebration for me!  A lace shawl is always a major achievement for a knitter – particularly a large shawl with a lot of pattern work.  But my personal especial triumph here is that it is actually DONE! 

I love lace-knitting and I love lace-weight yarn and I love lace shawls.  I have started probably 6? 7? 8?  And never finished one yet UNTIL TODAY!  I have enough lace-weight yarn in my possession for a dozen, maybe 15 lace shawls.  I have several on the needles right now – and I have not given up on them.  Now, today, they have reason not to give up on me!

Some particulars about the Gull Pi Shawl:

It is based on Elizabeth Zimmermann’s “Pi Shawl” in Knitter’s Almanac.  I used 6 lace-weight yarns from a Knit Picks sampler (wool, alpaca, silk) in a range of gray neutrals – gull colors.  Each of the 8 lace pattern is bird- or beach-inspired (in name and/or design).  It measures 57” in diameter. 

The edging is Birds’ Eye Lace Edging and there are 72 points (16 rows per point) and there was enough of the Basalt Merino yarn for exactly 71 points.  So, there is a single point in the Brown Alpaca which I used for the center section!

I had thought I might celebrate with a glass of good Cabernet Sauvignon – but since there was no one around to share it (and celebrating with an entire bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon did not seem like a good idea…), I went with another form of festivity and cast on a pair of wooly socks.