Shawl and Birthday Update

Here's the birthday girl on her one year anniversary!

She was very excited about her new present, but it didn't take her much over 20 minutes to tear the top of the head, so she had to forfeit her gift until a bit of sewing can be done.

The shawl I have been designing progressed with fits and starts. It seems to be turning into a garden motif.

After an unpromising start in the upper back (bottom of the picture), I decided to go more geometric. There are three basic motifs, plus triangular insets at either side to allow for the increase of stitches on the sides.

There is a chevron motif, a leaf motif in the  center and a (vaguely) rose on a stalk kind of motif. The leaf motif gave me trouble yesterday and I had to redo the whole right side section (where the needles can be seen emerging on the upper left.)

This is a detail of the rose on a stalk section and has what has made me decide to call it the Rose Trellis shawl.