Hey, y'all! Just dropping in for a quick reminder that tomorrow (Sunday, April 26th) is the last day to use your exclusive discount code Ironwood to save 20% on my new crochet pattern, the Echoes of Ironwood Shawl.

You can read more about it on my website and the coupon code will work on Ravelry as well as in my Etsy shop.

I've also added a few more project bags to my Etsy shop featuring the painting I did on the same mountainside in Molokai that inspired the name of this shawl. It's also the image from January in my Island Abstracts calendar for this year.

My ʻŌhiʻa bags have been getting a lot of use! And I love how brightly the painting was printed on the fabric.

I'm also, sadly, nearing the end of this texturelicious scarf, and have wound the last three mini skeins into cute little handwound balls. If it's not accepted for the magazine I submitted it to, I'll plan on self-publishing either this fall or perhaps next year in conjunction with a Wild Florals calendar, since all my little flower paintings were what inspired me to design it!

There's one last offering I have to share with you today, and that's my Kalaupapa Lookout in the Rain tapestry.

It was recently included in the Storied Ground exhibition at the Kahilu Theatre on Hawaiʻi Island and it's one of the pieces I'm most proud of. She holds so much memory and care in her fibers and was crocheted from a single, unbroken skein of my own handspun yarn, which makes it even more amazing to me that it turned out so beautifully.

Our chapter here in Hawaiʻi may be closing soon, but I have a feeling this is still only the beginning of the work you'll see from me that was inspired by our time here. (Yes, there are more crochet patterns coming!)

If there are any other tapestries or paintings that I've created here that resonated with you, though, please reach out to me about collecting them. Everything will be packed up into boxes on May 5th! And although I hope everything will arrive in Georgia safely in a few weeks time, there is always a risk in moving original artwork. Especially when it gets stuffed into crates and put on a boat!

I still haven't decided yet what project(s) I should pack to bring with me, if any. Perhaps I should ... take a break? I don't know if I can do that, though! We'll see.

All right. I'm off to work on my scarf some more! Perhaps she'll be finished the next time I write to you?

Cheers!

-Connie

P.S. I have not one single new bird photo to share with you. The bird feeder has been taken down and packed away and they were all quick to give up on visiting after that! Baby chicken season is upon us, though, so I'll have to be on the lookout for photo opportunities when I'm out walking around the neighborhood.

Oh and our resident plover has left us for Alaska, too! The picture I shared with you last week was the last time I saw him. So here's one from the archives, which is one of my favorites because of the blue jacaranda blooms scattered in the grass around him.