Wedding Surprise: Revealed!

This is my super secret project, a lacy lovely shawl to become some heritage piece in a branch of my family. Instead of throwing a bouquet at our cookout/very late reception, I intend to bunch this puppy up into a bouquet shape (somehow) and toss it to my sisters regardless of their own marital status and let them take home not a crumpled bunch of dead plant genetalia (which could be lovely, but are unarguably hard to keep nice), but an item they can not only personalize with dye, reblocking, etc, but something that might become an heirloom with time.

That's my fun thought, really: That some future generation, long since separated from Auntie LJ, receiving their only working knowledge of me as a doddering but doting distant relative via birthday cards and the occasional reunion, would have this treasure made by my own hand. It's a nice thought for me regardless of whether or not that future recipient would ever know that the blue-haired (electric blue. I'll be old, so I won't have to pretend any adherence to convention.) old lady made this in her youth while planning her elopement.