This is the first real spring I ever experienced and I love it! All the sudden changes of nature around me, the flowers and the different shades of green the trees are so busy creating, make me very happy!

In Israel we say that if you over sleep during the alleged spring or fall you are going to miss them and in Arizona, although we managed to catch the beautiful wildflowers in bloom a few times, it is really always summer – if you ask my humble opinion.

I really like all those Dandelions that seem to grow everywhere and I don’t quite understand why people don’t like them.

Last Saturday we went on a road trip to Vermont and to the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival where I bought the most colorful yarn from the Green Mountain Spinnery; Unfortunately they don’t show on their website the two colors I chose for my Ulmus – The minute I saw this shawl on Kirsten blog, I knew I must knit it.

The Dandelions in the green grass look just like my yarns!

While driving in Vermont, I realised the yarns I chose look just like the Dandelions in the medows if you catch them with the sun on them from the right direction, so very lovely:

The start of the shawl with its name origin

Those colors and the pattern make knitting Dandelions a very happy mission and the shawl grew quite a bit during our long drive from Vermont back to Toronto yesterday:

My Dandelions Shawl has relatives in Toronto too!

I hope I will manage to finish it in time as it is a present for an upcoming event!

More about our trip and the festival which was actually my first ever real wool festival, in the very near future.