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*****

Oh my.

What a combination!

A beautiful design by Nim Teasdale -- gorgeous lace work plus beads!

Oh, be still my heart. :-)

The Design

Here is how Nim describes her Whirlwind Romance:

There moments in life when a new love comes along from out of the blue and sweeps us off our feet. Sometimes this love is a person, other times it might be an idea, a book, a skill or even a craft project.

This shawl is a bit like that. The lace starts from a single stitch, a spark, and flares quickly into an addictive little knit that like any intense romance has cycles of intensity interspersed with the stockinette of everyday life.

The simplicity of the design offers a gentle introduction to a variation on the traditional Estonian Star Stitch, as it is used only in the central panel.

Note that the pattern is both written and charted, with pattern rows on the right side only.

About Yarn

This is another of Nim's amazingly adaptable designs, for which one can use any yardage, and any range of yarn weights from lace to heavy fingering. This skein will allow you to make a very substantial and beautiful shawl using anything from 200 - 800 yards (183 - 732 m).

About Beads

Nim is not specific about how many beads are needed, and indeed with such a range of yardages and weights it would be difficult for her to predict. She does recommend using beads to match the yarn weight, so 8/0s for lace weight and 6/0 for fingering.

Nim wrote to me that on her original there are maybe only 90 of them -- though you can easily put on more, of course.