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A Humming of Bees is a semicircular lace shawl with an exponential repeat, a little like a recipe for a pi shawl. It starts with 3 repeats, becomes 6, then 12, then 24, 48, etc, and can continue doubling until you run out of yarn. The design is based on a Nieblingesque doily, which I’ve tinkered with, adding tiny waterlilies or bees, depending on how you look at them.

• The size of the shawl is adaptable. The pattern is written as a half circle, but more wedges can be added, and it can be worked to any length &/or yardage, with some capacity to alter the ratio of ruffle to depth at the edge.
• Suits lace to sport weight yarn, in one or more solids, or a gradient worked from both ends.
• My small shawl (pictured) used 600m fingering weight yarn, however a larger shawl will need quite a bit more yarn, as the rows are increasingly yarn-hungry. A larger shawl can comfortably use 1600m.
• Pattern rows are worked on the right side only.
• The design can be worked entirely from the written pattern, or from charts with some notes.
• My project page can be found here.

The pattern includes a supplementary page with information about bees and how to support them in your local community. (You can also access this for free via the photos on the left of this page.)