The bird's nest shawl blocked to a larger size than I thought it would. It's pretty enveloping; very long for a stole (somewhere over 7 feet) and it's plenty wide enough.

Perhaps the chambray dress I was wearing today was not the best background for it, but I'm in kind of a hurry, so here are the "action" shots:



This was an attempt to re-create one of the Cheryl Oberle poses with the shawl (except she didn't have her eyes closed in her photo). You can see how big the shawl is here.

I like it; it's kind of plain in color but I think it will work well over a number of things.

This shows the triangular lace pattern a little more clearly:



You can see it's asymmetrical; two repeats of the triangle hard on each other's heels, than a few rows of plain stockinet, then another triangle. I don't know if that's a specifically Tibetan design (maybe the triangles are supposed to look like prayer flags?) or if the only "hook" to the culture is that the original was made of cashmere.

(Actually, upon reflection, I LIKE the idea that the triangles might be designed to represent Tibetan prayer flags.)

You can really wrap the shawl around yourself.



(There are more photos in my Flickr stream, but I feel like these were the ones that came out the best. Taking photos with a timer is an iffy proposition some times - hence the photo with me with my eyes closed.)