
When I joined the 12 Shawls in 2012 Ravelry group, I read that I would need to make two shawls that used at least 546 yards of yarn. Prayer shawls can be fairly big so I hoped that a prayer shawl would satisfy that requirement.
I looked in my stash and found some leftover acrylic yarn. If a prayer shawl is not going to a specific person, I make it from acrylic for easy care. (If I know someone will take care of it, I make it out of other yarns.)
I weighed, weighed again, and weighed some more as I made this shawl. It seemed like I could make it to the required yardage but I wasn't sure if the colors would end in the right spots. Would I be able to end at the right spot and use enough purple? How many rows of green could I knit before needing to bind off? How much yarn would the bind off take?
It all worked out. The shawl uses 548 yards of yarn and has the right amounts of purple and green. And it used up just about all of my yarn, too!


