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Done; off the needles, ends stitched in, washed and somewhat blocked.  That's a full-size bed.  Still need to get a formal shot against a white background so the lace details show up; ideally, with the shawl and the camera aligned.  Ran out of the navy glitter yarn halfway through the last round. Tested several lace edgings and in the end, decided a simple cast-off was the better option. Fun.  Engaging.  Now onto something new.

Done!  (Mostly--still have to sew in loose ends and block.) Used a stretchy cast off to end the last row of feather and fan.  Now to stitch in the ends, wash, and block. May use the spare room bed to pin it out.

The last rows of Ring 9 and the beginning of the last feather and fan got me through the election. I was the handler for a candidate; we spent Tuesday driving from precinct to precinct, meeting voters.  He drove; I knit.  (The shawl is big enough, and baggy enough, that it holds the ball of yarn inside itself, so I could stand at the polling places, tuck the bag under one arm, and continue to knit while we chatted with poll greeters and the occasional voter.) Very low turnout on election day because in our counties, 70% of the people...

That didn't work.  I had some bright red boucle yarn that I was planning to use for the last ring of big hearts.  I finished off the Noro shown in the last article, and started with the boucle.  Made it to two rows and gave up.  Forgot to take a picture; sorry. The yarn was too thick for the lace--couldn't see the stitches, couldn't see the pattern developing, and worst of all, I couldn't see what stitch I was on--whether I had already done the two K2T (effectively), or only one.  Unpleasant. So I unpicked, and that messed up the...

Moving into the final ring, this in orange blending to red.  Had a tiny bit of orange mohair that made a round or two, then moved into a long Nori leftover, blended with a bit of pink alpaca laceweight to shift the color toward red, and to add a bit of bulk.