Love the pattern, love the yarn, just not together. The yarn is at the thin end of the fingering scale and thus the scarf is lacking body … limp rather than having drape. Have to decide whether to restart with same yarn and smaller needles or a more robust fingering with the same needles.

Note for second try: use Judy’s Magic Cast-On rather than following pattern instruction for provisional cast-on that has to be grafted closed later.