It is the Crazed Scandinavian Cowl. I love it!!! I finished it over Mother's Day Weekend. Emily and I binged on the last two Harry Potter movies, Deathly Hallows part 1 and 2 while I grafted the cowl together. Started at 10 pm, grafted the last stitch at 2:12 AM! As I said to a friend, I felt like the Sharon of old, not old Sharon!
I had a booth at Yarnover a couple weeks ago and brought along the cowl still on the needles as I spun up another batch of the same yarn and had it as a kit. Wendy Johnson, the amazing designer of the cowl, gave me permission to have her pattern attached to the yarn. I was very nervous about doing something like this since it was over 2100 yards of handspun yarn. Not an inexpensive project, and my sample wasn't even complete. But do you know the kit sold in the first five minutes of the show! I nearly cried and hugged the poor woman who bought it from me. She probably thought I was as crazy as the cowl! I did make some changes to the yarn for the kit. I spun it at a much finer weight as my original batch was just a wee bit heavier and thicker than the intended yarn. On one hand, my cowl will be able to handily deflect a -30 below Minnesota blizzard perfectly, but may not be the easiest thing to wear on most other days. And to top it off, I had such interest in the cowl I have a few orders for additional kits in the same and different colorways! Talk about happy and excited! So once I'm done with my spring shows, I will get busy at the wheel and work on those orders so they are done before my next stretch of shows this fall!
On the home front, Emily is moving on to high school next year, now that is a big transition on its own, but my girl? Tried out for competition cheer and made the varsity team! Oh boy, here we go again! I may have mentioned this in years past when Anna was a comp cheerleader, how expensive these activities are. So the more Crazed Scandinavian Cowl kits I can sell the better! Because my fabulous sweet amazing Chinese Swedish Minnesotan girl is going to need every extra penny I earn!
If you are coming to Shepherd's Harvest, look for me in Barn C. And if you mention seeing this blog post, it is worth 10% off your purchase! The event is so good for family's with kids, so many things to see and do. See you at the Washington County Fairgrounds, near Lake Elmo, May 14 and 15th!
2 comments:
I am happy to see the finished cowl. I saw it, and talked with you at Yarnover about how lovely it was. I'm excited to learn this type of colorwork knitting, but can't imagine I could ever produce something so beautiful! I am going to my first Shepherd's Harvest on Saturday. I hope to see you there!
Dawn'l
I saw this cowl at Shepherds Harvest and it is so much more beautiful in person. The color is amazing and the quality of the spinning and knitting is tops.
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