Lace Destashing!!

 I'm destashing lace and lo and behold...my Golden Glow Cloud Drift shawl! Original pattern located here.  It's still in its baby stages.  The pictures don't do the yellow justice.  It looks in real life like a lovely deep, golden yellow but right now it looks like "pale, undercooked scrambled egg" yellow.  Actually, I get all warm and fuzzy (pardon the pun) nostalgic when I knit this shawl because pre-blocking it looks all fluffy and so yellow that it reminds me of scrambled eggs cooked on a Sunday morning.

The lace itself on Cloud Drift opens up (again, hard to tell by the pictures pre-blocking) to this really simple yet dainty all knit garter with spots of of open lace that reminds me of little sun drops or cat paws.  Choosing a fluffy merino blended lace yarn was definitely a GOOD choice with this pattern to give it a soft and fluffy, delicate cloud look but I would be curious if anyone has any alpaca blended interpretations of the same pattern.  So far I checked Ravelry and I keep checking every so often but the number of knitters to this project are still population: ME.  As such and given how much I quickly grew to love this pattern, I'm excited to try and make notation as much as possible the progress on this shawl as a reference point for other knitters.  

Looking on Ravelry is actually the FIRST thing I always do when I'm considering a pattern.  Partly to get a gauge on what other folks have tried in terms of yarn and needle size and what alterations or adjustments people made as they went along but mostly to help me predict how my version may look like.  It's cut me time and heck, I'll even use that to explore how different yarns I intended to buy tend to look like when knitted up in a variety of patterns by different users in the colors I was considering.  It's actually caused me to reconsider some of my yarn choices but also rethink my current yarn stash in a different light when I see what others have played with.  My only sadness is when I see an amazing end result that just blows all other projects out of the water but the user makes no mention of needle size, yarn, or adjustment notes in their project and you can TELL they worked some sort of knitting voodoo magic outside the norm but you haven't got the foggiest idea of where to begin with.