noro shawl.

Noro is one of my favourite yarns and when they brought out the lace weight i brought two balls and for about 18 months i have been unsuccessfully knitting a shawl from the wool.
its not the patterns the pattern is lovely its from jon dun of easy knits and its the 2nd shawl pattern but its just taking a very long time as it is nearly 500 stitches in the circle to create the shawl.
The shawl is coming along well and ive decided to change the pattern slightly as its coming out slightly small im adding in some panels of garter stitch to break up the lace pannels.
I think that the size of the shawl is going to finish a little on the small size so i may have to increase the size again to end up with 1000 stitches.
This is very daunting but i think its the only way to make it a usable size.

Being a circle this is why i think  it will have to be so much bigger so i can be used a scarf.