knitting for others

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Hi, I have joined a Prayer Shawl ministry that my church is doing. We knit ( or crochet) shawls or lap robes for those who are ill or shut in. The ones I knit go to our church's shut ins. It's very rewarding and fun to do use different shawl patterns. I am having trouble doing this one pattern. I keep dropping stitches and with the bulky yarn I am using I can't just take out to the drop stitched and repair it. I have to tear it all out and start over! This is a lace shawl pattern with yarn overs and such, and ssk's so tearing out is the only option! Oh well, I'll get it yet. I decided to do a diagonal shawl where you start with three stitches, knit first, then increase in the first and second to last stitch, then knit across. It's a knit, increase, knit pattern. You just keep doing that until it's as big as you like it. Depending on the size of needles and yarn.