This morning I'm writing to you from a cute little cafe style table outside our room at the Navy Lodge on Ford Island.

Do you see the cattle egret flying off?? It landed on the sign right as I was about to take the picture!

It didn't appreciate me being there, though, lol.

All of our things have been packed into boxes and crates and suitcases now and we are quickly approaching our final 24 hours here in Hawaii.

It is most bittersweet.

Hawaii has given me so many wonderful gifts in our three years here and I know that she will go on inspiring me for many more to come!

But it's time to close this chapter and look ahead to the next one: Georgia.

Well.

Sort of.

I'm actually planning on putting out a call for pattern testers soon, tentatively next week, for the shawl I designed on Molokai that was inspired by the little crabs on the beach there!

Do you remember this one?

The pattern is with my tech editor right now!

So do stay tuned if you'd be interested in testing. You can join my testing pool on Yarnpond here, if you're not in there already; it's where I host all of my pattern tests.

I've also been working a little bit more on the garden themed kit scarf pattern. I shared this picture over on Instagram, but I'll share it again here because it just delights me!

The scarf was 100% inspired by all my little wild floral paintings with ALL the different colors.

I think these two projects together make a beautiful beginning for a new collection in 2027, don't you think!?

Ah, but perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.

I need to focus on this transition, first, and our next big step is actually getting all of our remaining stuff (and all of ourselves!) onto the plane back to the mainland.

This guy, included:

Wish me luck! I suspect I may need lots of it over the next couple weeks, lol.

Cheers, y'all!

-Connie

P.S. No bird pictures to share (besides the departing cattle egret, I suppose!), but how about one last rainbow from Hawaii?