The pattern is The Dragon Shawl by Alex at Yarn Geek Makes (formerly Two Hearts Crochet). The yarn is her suggested yarn, Malabrigo Rios (#4 worsted weight), but I did switch up the color I chose. Her suggestion was for a black with hints of red/orange/gold, which gave off a burning fire feel, but I went with Candombe, which is mainly black with hints of green, blue and purple. Kind of a Maleficent-dragon feel, that I thought would compliment Ant Bee's Slytherin nature. I had a really hard time capturing the color of the yarn. The last picture of 3 tassels is probably the most accurate in terms of yarn color.
The pattern does work up very quickly. Absolute start to finish on it was 10 days, but some of that time was waiting for a third set of blocking boards to arrive. (I had 9 boards, and assumed I'd be safe with ordering 3 more as I was nearing the end of hooking, for a total of 12. But this thing was so huge, that when I wen to pin it out I discovered I needed another order of 3, meaning it took 15' of board!) Honestly, I didn't find filet confusing at all, after learning to do a graphghan last year. It was just knowing what counted as an 'open' box vs a 'closed' box. Easy peasy.
I made 3 yarn & bead tassels with the leftover yarn, and put them onto jewelry clasps so that they can be added or removed as needed. Ant Bee has a little one, so I think she might need to hide the tassels until tiny fingers aren't tempted to grab and pull. I'm so pleased with how this came out, and I'm looking forward to messing around with filet crochet more in future.
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