Meet Jackson Brown

Vacation Butterfly is the newest pattern from Marin Melchior. 

Photos © Marin Melchior

You can purchase the pattern on Ravelry.

This is a variation of the popular Butterfly-Papillon Shawl. It is similar but has some changes to help with a few things in the pattern that could be tweaked for this version. These include but are not limited to a 3 sts garter border, a different ending section of short rows, & a different bottom edge. I named it Vacation Butterfly. You have a few places at the start to pay attention (Packing), but then LOTS of middle that is garter with repetitious increases on the right side and nothing on the wrong side (Travel). Then, the end has most of the effort and pop, with short rows and a special finish (Returning Home, aka BACK TO WORK … goodness, I cannot believe I came BACK home!).

I made up kits yesterday afternoon. Marin used yarn from Urth Yarns - Uneek Fingering and Monokram and that’s what I used for the kits.

Meet Jackson Brown. Beth’s flight was a bit late leaving but she was comfortable. I gave her the flight for her birthday. She flew business class with a lie down bed. Thank you Aeroplan. (Now Beth, mom and dad have all flown with a lie down bed - I haven’t.) She landed, got her car and drove to meet Jackson.

There is a couple from Toronto picking up their puppy this week as well - he is the little black guy. They drove from the airport with Beth because they couldn’t get a rental car. Thankfully Beth rented hers the minute she knew she was flying out.

Beth is back at her hotel and will pick up Jackson in the morning. Boscoe misses his mom but I have a feeling he isn’t going to be happy with his mom tomorrow night when she gets home with a puppy.