Monday, April 02, 2018

Bluebonnet Fields Forever

Every year, fiber enthusiasts from across North Texas band together in a massive show of support for our local yarn stores. Over the course of ten days - one week and two weekends - we are encouraged to visit as many shops as we can during the annual DFW Yarn Crawl (currently revamping their website in preparation for this year's event). It's a great opportunity to get to know shop owners, local dyers and ranchers, and probably your carpool buddies too! Some of us drive hundreds of miles, from Dallas up through Denton, Whitesboro to west Fort Worth, and everywhere in between. The past two years, I've managed to hit every single shop on the list and got a free t-shirt proclaiming my Road Warrior status!

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This year, I'm honored to be a contributor to the DFW Designers Collection: Volume 2. It's a compilation of patterns from local designers, with one or two new designs released each month throughout the year, to help you use all the yarn that followed you home from the crawl. You can get the knit bundle, the crochet bundle, or buy them all! And the proceeds go to improving the annual crawl festivities. Sounds like a win-win, right?

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My contribution to this year's knit collection is the Bluebonnet Fields Forever shawl, and it's just been released for the month of April! It's a half-hexagon worked from the center outward in a lacy stitch resembling a field of bluebonnets disappearing into the distance, edged with larger "foreground" bluebonnets and a green grass border. You could use any fingering weight yarn you like, but it would look best in two solid or semi-solid colorways. Bluebonnets not your thing? That's cool. Find your favorite flower - something with tall vertical clusters of blooms like lavender, lilac, hyacinth, or snapdragon to name a few - and pick a yarn based on that color instead.

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And as a special bonus, if you're attending DFW Fiber Fest next weekend at the Irving Convention Center, we'll be having a cast-on party for this pattern Sunday April 8 from 12-2 in the stitching lounge. There will be close to a hundred vendors in the market hall, so pick your perfect yarn and then come knit with us!

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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Span: 51 inches
Height at center: 20 inches

MATERIALS
Fingering weight yarn: 300yds/275m of Color A and 150yds/137m of Color B
Color A: Cascade Heritage Paints [75% merino, 25% nylon; 437yds/400m per 100g skein]; color: 9825 Isle of Skye; 1 skein
Color B: Happy Fuzzy Yarn Corrie Sock [75% wool, 25% nylon; 435yds/398m per 100g skein]; color: Moss; 1 skein
US #6/4mm circular needle
Tapestry needle
2 removable stitch markers

GAUGE
18 sts/24 rows = 4 inches by 4 inches in lace pattern, after blocking

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Bluebonnet Fields Forever