Shawl Planning

The shawl I am currently working on has a fun little bit of a story.  I have 2 weddings to attend coming up this summer.  Due to my significant weight change in the last 18 months, nothing in my closet that resembles appropriate wedding wear fits anymore.  Out of desperation, I ordered a dress from Lands' End that actually ended up fitting me.  Unfortunately, it has big pink flowers.  I don't do pink, and I don't do big prints.

The blue is also exactly the wrong shade to work with my current favorite shawl, so I set out to find something in my yarn stash that would go with the dress and failed.  The answer was quick to find me in the form of the weekly update from my favorite local yarn shop, Purlescence Yarns, where I spotted the perfect green yarn.

After some searching, I settled on a decently simple lace leaf pattern that was free on Ravelry.  (I think Callie shows the pattern off very well.)  I swatched, blocked, measured, and calculated.  I did some quick research on general rectangular shawl sizes and settled on 18" x 72" as my goal.  After further inquiries and measurements, I realized 72" is probably too long for me, so that has been revised to 17" x 60".  5 repeats across gave me about 17", and 42 repeats of the 12-row pattern should give me 60".

I set mid-July as my deadline and calculated that I needed to do 5 pattern repeats a week (that was for 72", though).  As of last night, I am at 38 out of 42 pattern repeats.  I'm so close.