I didn’t win but at least I figured it out before I got too far into the lace motif. The Kindness shawl is off the needles and blocked. I had 48 inches of yarn left after I did one row of the lace motif and an extra row of knitting.
I love it!
I love the colors.
I love the yarn.
It’s the perfect size to wrap around my neck instead of a bulky scarf.
And I only found one mistake. But I don’t care. At least it’s not a dropped stitch!
Almost finished. Only one more row of the horseshoe lace pattern then three rows of garter stitch and bind off and my Kindness shawl will be off the needles and ready to block!
I don’t have a scale to weigh the rest of the yarn but I want to use as much as I can.
So my plan is to put in a lifeline at the end of this last lace row and see if I can get another horseshoe lace repeat before I run out of yarn. If I don’t, then I can just rip back to the lifeline and continue with the three-row garter stitch and bind off.
I’ve only played “yarn chicken” once before…and lost.
I haven’t abandoned the socks but I took your advice and decided to step back (haha) from that project for now. And I’m still debating about what to do with the Which Way Now shawl.
The Bacardi Cardi is ripped back part way and on my radar. That sweater will be finished this spring (or summer), however, I need something different on my needles. Right. Now.
Enter Kindness.
The garter tab start is new for me and I really liked how the beginning few rows look. No bump. Trust me, there is no bump. All the stitches just blend right in. 
The yarn is Knit Picks Chroma Fingering in the beautiful Galápagos colorway (which is not available anymore). Soft blues morph into greens and cream and back out again.
I would be farther along with this but I decided to convert the directions into a table with row-by-row stitch counts included in the far right column. It was a bit tedious and I don’t have all the stitch counts at the end of the rows as I am new to reading and deciphering lace charts to see how the count changes. This concept is used by Helen Stewart and the Spindrift Shawl pattern and it really helped me especially when the stitch counts changes every row.
I think this lovely little shawlette will be just the thing to get my confidence back.
Mr. Aitch gifted me this beautiful yarn for Christmas.
The Which Way shawl pattern was written for this Wonderland Yarns Mad Hatter kit of five gradients plus one. This is the Little Busy Bee and Lime to Turquoise kit. I LOVE all the colors!
The shawl is finished.
I ran out of the main color and used the rest of the first color in the gradient to finish though I still ran out of yarn. Others on Ravelry had the same issue with the quantity of yarn vs pattern.
Most of the ends are woven in but haven’t blocked the shawl. I’m just not sure I like it.
Knitting In Flashes 