Delicious autumn!
My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
-George Eliot

Delicious Autumn is a beaded, fingering weight, crescent-shaped shawl with a leaf lace border. The shawl is worked top down and is embellished with beads in the lace section.

The lace pattern is both written and charted.

The pattern is available in screen-reader friendly, low vision format as well. The accessible formatted version of this pattern uses all black 24 point Arial font, no columns, no italics, and has fully written instructions. The chart is not needed. Minimal abbreviations are used and the pattern has been tested with Adobe Read Out Loud for screen reader clarity.

Finished Measurements
66” 168 cm wide, 23” 58 cm deep

Yarn
Eden Cottage Yarns Bowland 4ply (100% superwash Bluefaced Leicester; 436 yards 400 meters/100 grams): Rust (2 balls)

Needles
US size 6 (4 mm) and size 8 (5 mm): 32” circular
Or size needed to obtain gauge.

Notions
310 beads (6/4 mm); 0.7mm or appropriate size crochet hook for beading; removable stitch markers; tapestry needle or crochet hook to weave in ends; blocking pins/wires.

Gauge
20 sts and 28 rows = 4” 10 cm in St st after wet blocking on smaller needles.

Techniques
Adding beads to knitting, garter tab cast on, knit and purl decreases, knitted bind off, provisional cast on, yarnovers.