Finally! My Lace Shawl!

Hello!
I've really been looking forward to being able to write this post. I have been working on this lace shawl on and off, between Christmas gifts and swaps, while watching football and Little House on the Prairie, and during visits with family and friends. To make a long story short, this shawl has taken me FOREVER! But! The time put into it was totally worth it!

Knitpicks.com had a yarn sale a few months ago, and when they did I bought three skeins of lace weight yarn, I got an amazing deal! Praise the Lord!

As you can see, it's alpaca and silk! I love touching this yarn, it's SO soft!

The color I got is BEAUTIFUL! The color is called "Bayou", I love all the different shades of green and brown there are, then the little bit of blue. I love it so much! I was really pleased when my yarn came in the mail. There is something about ordering yarn and having it come directly to your house, through the mail, that is so much fun!

I had started this shawl on Thanksgiving Eve day, then I had to put it away and make Christmas things, plus some things to put on etsy, so I didn't work on it a ton. After I finished my Christmas gifts I was able to work on it much more often, it took me such a long time to finally finish it because of how fine the yarn is. The pattern I used is out of  "Cute and Easy Crochet" by Nicki Trench, it's called "Summer Evening Shawl". I personally would wear this any time of the year!

I didn't make my shawl quite as long as the pattern said to, but if I had it probably would have been way to long for me! The way the yarn looked before I crocheted with it, then as I started to work with it, I think the colors got even more beautiful!

This isn't the greatest picture of it, but I wanted at least one picture where you can see the entire shawl.

One thing I really love about this shawl is that I can also wear it as a scarf!

Another thing I love about this shawl, other than the amazing yarn, is the edging of picots. As long as the edging took, it added a lot to the shawl and I really love it!

This is a really close-up picture of the edging...

Then taking a step back, it looks something like this. =)

As much fun as I had working on this, I'm really happy I'm done and can wear it now! =) I have been waiting so long to finally be able to write a post about this lace shawl and am SO excited that I was able to today! =)

Have a great day!