The shawl was worked on for quite a number of months-plus I put it aside for about a month before I worked on the last 10 rows. It's one of those things where the finished product looks that it was really hard to make but the pattern is really easy. The pattern was easily memorized. The worst part was the bind off (I did a 2 row lace bind off where I knit 1, yo across the first row and then bound off the next. That was the part I thought I'd never finish!