A while ago, I was seduced by some Madeline Tosh Merino Fingering yarn, in the Vanilla Bean colourway. I hunted through my queue of patterns and cast on Annis, which is a free pattern from Knitty.

Here’s the result:Annis is a curved shawlette, and the shape is intended to keep it on your shoulders.

Here’s a detail of the border – of course, I added some gold matte beads:I like this piece. It was a pretty quick knit, although it came out a bit smaller than expected. I must have 100m of the ball of yarn left over – if I made one of these again, I think I’d knit some more rows after the lace border and before the shaping. I did add six rows of garter stitch before casting off.

So – shawl or scarf? What do you think?