Branching out scarf

This is only my second excursion into lace knitting. The Branching Out pattern is on Knitty.com and was particularly good for someone just getting started with lace knitting because the pattern gives the number of stitches one is *supposed* to have after each row.

I used a lifeline which also helped. At one point I had to frog below the lifeline because I had failed to count the number of stitches in the row before installing the lifeline. Mirror image patterns are especially good for beginning lace knitters because the number of stitches on each half can be compared.