Sara

Simple and easy to follow pattern. The yarn is super soft and fun to work with.

Lisa

This is a great beginner project. The yarn is soft and lovely to work with, but my gauge was off by 2 stitches and 4 skeins of yarn was not enough to finish 140 stitches. I only got to 138 stitches with 4 entire skeins and I had nothing left over for the fringe. Note that the finished size is fine for a scarf to wear around your neck or a small shawl. The model in the photo is slim and tiny build so it looks fine on her as the pattern is written. I recommend getting 5 skeins of yarn so you have enough for the fringe if you make it the same size as the pattern recommends. For an average size or larger person I recommend using 6 skeins of yarn to have enough for additional rows plus fringe, because otherwise it is a very small shawl. The pattern is well written, but for an absolute beginner knitter who has never done yarn-overs I recommend first doing yarn-over practice with wool yarn because I found it challenging to figure out yarn-overs with fuzzy mohair.