EnShawled!

 I finished knitting the Seasons of Life Shawl from Kay Meadors.  I set it out to block in the sunshine.

 And it immediately got inspected.  The cats do love the smell of the wool. 

It is beautiful!  I do love the feel of the sock weight yarn for the shawl.

 This also has beading on the lace edging which adds just the right amount of weight to the drape.  I prefer to add beads to the skein of yarn instead of working with a crochet hook to add them to my knitting but I might rethink it for this pattern.  It was a pain to slide the beads out of the way for the return row and I did have trouble keeping the beads where they belonged when I had yarnovers on either side of the bead.  I will be returning to this pattern again and again.  Why not give it a try?!