A friend of mine once dyed her hair a lovely shade of lilac, and another friend of hers said that it made her look like a beautiful storm cloud. When I combined together the extremely different strands of hardwearing, rustic cotton-wool blend Noro Taiyo and soft, delicate Misti Alpaca Lace for this project, I feel as though they combined into something completely unique from either yarn. They merged into a lovely, light fabric that is super soft, yet very warm and cozy. Something about the light blue alpaca tempered down the wild color variations of the Taiyo, turning it into a beautiful storm cloud of my own. In fact, when I was working on it, a co-worker told me that it looked like the sky right before a storm, hence the name.

This is a very simple lace project worked in the round, fantastic for lace beginners or for those who love to play with color and texture combinations. You end up using very little of each skein of yarn, so you can save this project for when you need to have some fun with leftovers from other projects. The Lacy Scallops pattern is adapted for knitting in the round from the fantastic stitch reference guide Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns published in 2005 by Sterling Publishing.