The "design element" really does look nice. It breaks up the pattern and adds interest. gorgeous work!

The "design element" is hardly noticeable. One of the shawl patterns sold by a number of catalogs (is it Wool You Order? I'm not sure; at any rate, it's pictured in blue) has a honking big mistake in it and I marvel everytime I see the photo that the company didn't fold the thing the other way so the mistake wasn't right out front! At any rate, your Kimono is a lovely shawl indeed. I remain hopeful that it will be well received.

My experience of knitting lace shawls is to forget about being a perfectionist. There is nothing more difficult than un-ravelling lace. I think your design feature is just lovely, and you don't even need to repeat it if you don't want to. Remember the Amish quilts, they always made one error in the quilt, some say it's because they were not willing to challenge the perfection of god,. . .however there are other theories.
I have made the Stora Dinum shawl from Cheryl Oberle's book that you are using. It took me nine months and it was well worth the effort. My only regret, and it's a big one, is that I didn't use my handspun for it. I just wanted a lace shawl and I had time to knit or spin. I chose to knit. Next shawl however, the Bird's Nest shawl from the same book, is going to be handspun wool, silk and mohair.

Oh Sheila, it's lovely. And familiar! I've been knitting a "kimono scarf" out of Blackberry Ridge silk/wool laceweight. Four pattern repeats; something like sixty stitches across, with edging.

How do the pearls fit into the picture? Are you sewing them on, or threading them onto the yarn? Will they be randomly scattered, or is there method to the madness? ;-)

ok, y'all have convinced me that I don't need to repeat the mistake. God knows I would end up mistakenly not making a mistake, or making a mistake at the wrong place. The Amish tradition Diana Jean speaks of is also a tradition with, who, Muslims? So I suppose that a marriage can't be expected to be perfect, so why should the wedding shawl tempt fate. I love good rationalization! I wish I could have spun something to use, too, but I think even with enough time the pressure to produce something consistently elegant would be too much at this point in my spinning career.

Beth, how cool is that?! We're knitting the same thing! I imagine the pearls on every other point of the V that is formed by the eyelets, or else in the center of the six eyelet grouping (or in one case, the four-eyelets!) The holes are much too small for any yarn except for fine silk, so I will try to figure out a way to attach them after the shawl is knit. This gives me a little more time insurance, too, as I could leave the pearls off if I don't have time to put them on, and make a necklace or something instead. Not that I know how to do that.

Wow!
Beautiful, beautiful work and choice in yarn and pattern.
Thanks for the pictures and update.

Gorgeous ! Lucky bride.

it's beautiful, and sending all good karma to the shawl.

That's lovely, and I have to mention that Jojo is quite handsome, too. I have a 23-year-old, too, and he's much more difficult, still, than my 10-year-old. My sympathies.

Heh. I'm knitting the same shawl to wear at my own wedding. I think I'm about 5 repeats from the end, but it's taken me about 9 months to get this far because I kept ditching it for other projects. Now, a mere 5 months from W-Day, it's time to finish the thing.

Oh Sheila...the "flaw" is a good thing. I consider it to be very Zen and perfect for a wedding gift...married life is full of little oops moments and all the sweeter for it. It is so beautiful and may your daughter recognize the love in every stitch.

what?!! where?!! we see no flaw in your knitting, and no flaw in your inimitable logic. Seriously, though, I think making the shawl *unique* only adds to it as a truer reflection of you and your love for Sherah. I think it's beautiful. xox, SNAP, and woofs

You're a better and more patient woman than I am, Sheila. I woulda ripped the shawl down to the second repeat. But, then again, I wouldn't have figured out, as you did, that you could just turn the mistake into a "feature." Or, if I did, it woulda been right after I finished the ripping...

Either way, a beautiful, beautiful shawl, Sheila!

Sheesh, I forget to look at your blog for more than three minutes, and look what I discover. You're knitting a gorgeous lace shawls, in one of the patterns I covet most. Ever since I first saw that book, Kimono was the pattern from it I most wanted to make. I'm jealous!!! (and impressed, too)

Hi! I finished the Kimono Shawl out of Karabella lace mohair a few months ago. I probably have a picture somewhere on my blog (it came out well). I am thinking of making another one out of something a little bulkier than the laceweight. I think it is my favorite. Yours looks swell.