When these gorgeous new colours of Rico Soft Merino Aran came into A Good Yarn - well I may have got slightly obsessed. It’s not the first time I’ve used this yarn, nor the last. There’s a beautiful array of colours, it’s supersoft, pure merino, good yardage and a decent price too. I’ve got tons of knitting to do but they were beautiful and squishy and warm and well…. Last week, we had a lot of driving to do (he had a very nice birthday at Alton Towers Water Park) and Mr was happy to drive so over a few days I managed to get this lovely, squishy and colourful shawl finished. Can you tell I like it? The pattern is the Betsey Shawl by Amy Miller . Here's my Ravelry project page . It’s a very simple shawl and in my infinite wisdom, I thought I didn’t need stitch markers. Well, turns out I did. I was fine until I started the stripes and just assumed the double decreases lined up on the middle stitch. They don’t. This meant I had an extra stitch