Bluebird Shawl

Pattern: Feather Wings Shawl by Megan Lapp (published in Crafty Intentions)

Yarn: 100% Cotton, 140m/100g. 13.5 skeins Dark Blue (main) and 3.5 skeins Aqua (accent)

Tools: 6.5 mm (starting chain), 6.0 mm (feathers), 5.5 mm (pockets) hooks
The pattern says to make this with a 5.0 mm hook, but I used a larger one because I was working with pure cotton (no elastic or stretch) and needed everything to be looser so that it wouldn't curl.

Started: Dec 4, 2021
Finished: Feb 5, 2022
Finished all components on Jan 13, sewed together on Jan 15, finished placing and sewing in the pockets on Feb 5.

Additional Pockets:
Added two pockets by:

1. ch 20
2. sc 21 rows
3. sl st 1 row
4. should be about/block to 5.5 by 7 inches
5. sew to shawl about 8 inches from the tip of the first feather and .5 inches from from the edge.

Other Notes:
The name of the yarn kind of sucks and this ends up needing 1.7kg of it. There's a lot of counting along the edge of each feather and I wish it'd been designed with a lighter weight yarn in mind. In general, the stitches are pretty simple sc and hdc, with the exception of all the funky decreases at the base of each feather.

Summary: I love this, I am never taking this off.