Haruni Detail Post

Let me start out by acknowledging the designer.  Haruni is a beautiful lacy shawl pattern, designed by Emily Ross.  It is available to Ravelry members as a free download.  While it may have been time consuming for me, knitting this shawl has been well worth it.  I look at my finished Haruni, as it lays drying on the mats, and I honestly can't believe I knit that.  The pattern is broken down into two charts and ends with a loopy cast off.  Chart A, which creates the delicate lacy body of the shawl is super easy, and works up pretty fast.  Chart B, on the other hand, consists of multiple increases to produce the chunky leaf pattern across the bottom.  I thought I was never going to finish this chart (the largest rows had over 500 stitches!), but I soldiered on until the whole thing was completed! This is when I began to panic.  Chart B used a huge amount of yarn and left me with just over 2.5 yards.  The pattern offers two methods for creating the loopy cast off, a crochet version, and a knitted icord version.  According to the instructions, the icord method uses more yarn (thank you so much, Emily Ross, for including this note).  I decided to do the crochet cast off, but I still ran out to our local yarn seller and bought another hank (What can I say?  Sometimes my faith is weak). As I made my purchase, I showed the owner my shawl, and explained my situation to her.  She told me that if I had enough yarn to complete my cast off without breaking into the new hank, she'd let me exchange it (she's super nice!)

I've included this picture to illustrate the reason for my fear.  This is all the yarn I had left going into the cast off!

This is the amount of yarn I had after the cast off was completed. Whew!

Turns out I panicked for nothing, because I had more than enough yarn for the crochet cast off.  Would it have been enough for the icord cast off?  I don't know.  I'm glad I didn't attempt it, because now I have another trip to the yarn shop to look forward to.  This trip will have to wait until the shawl is dry, because I want to show it to my new friends at the yarn shop.
So was it worth it all?  Absolutely, 100%, Yes!  Most of my frustration was self-inflicted and will not be an issue should I knit another Haruni in the future...and as you can see from the previous post, this shawl is beautiful!  I still can't believe I knit that...