This is such a lovely shawl!

The Design

This is a lovely design by Nim Teasdale called RobinLeaf.  Here is how she describes it: 

This design is a remix of the triangle shawl, Robin in the Leaves, and was inspired by revisiting one of my favourite childhood books while reading it with my own children.

The edging uses a stitch pattern by Naomi Parkhurst of Gannet Designs, who has cleverly encoded the word ‘Rain’ into the lace, which seems rather fitting for an English landscape.

The size of the shawl is adaptable, both the texture stitch and the lace sections can be worked to any size. The line of catkins is optional, and can also be repeated multiple times.

The design can be worked entirely from the written pattern, or from charts with some notes.

Pattern rows are worked on the right side only.

The second colour used in the catkins is only stranded on one row, and carried up through later rows by slipping stitches.

Nim writes that the sizing is adaptable to any yardage of lace to DK yarn.

The pictured shawl used 330m (360y) of fingering weight yarn and measures approximately158x43cm (62x17in) after blocking. 

You will notice on Nim's original piece, there is a contrasting line of catkins and buds.  That is optional. The second colour is stranded on a single row, then slipped on following rows. 

You can used any yarn that you have leftover from another project and slide it in there if you wish or the other side of a gradient yarn to contrast well.  

The original shawl used 315 beads.