my beginners lace

Lace knitting is on my bucket list.  More specifically a traditional Shetland Wedding Shawl is on my bucket list, and it may stay in the 'to do' column a few years longer.  Reason being is that I just finished my first lace project.  I'm wondering why I waited so long to do this?  It was a great intro project that, mercifully, didn't require months on the needles.  I learned a few new stitches and how to read a chart. 

I used some of my homespun yarn, a single ply compliments of Elf.  Although it doesn't show in the photo very well, the actual color is a light grey.  My consistency wasn't awesome on this yarn so the thick and thin of the strand creates a bit of wonkiness to the lace pattern, but then it also hides my mistakes.

The piece measures 12" by 30" simply because I stopped when I ran out of yarn.  It's not exactly long enough to wrap like a scarf but does drape over my shoulders like a small shawl so I'm going with that.  Actually I'm tempted to cut it up and use it in a sewing project.  If I stabilized it on the back with a nice piece of wool fabric to show off the pattern, it would make a gorgeous accent.  Perhaps a vest front or yoke on a fall jacket?  I suppose for now I'll drape it somewhere in the house and bask in the accomplishment for a few days while I ponder my next move.  Do I get back to the wheel and spin something finer?  Or hit the yarn shop for a more complicated pattern that is the next step in the looong uphill climb toward that wedding shawl?