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I sat next to Jon in his office this morning.  On his computer screen in front of us six of the people Jon has a Zoom meeting with every week.  Sometimes I join in.

Today Wendy was knitting with my blue wool from Constance and Socks.  She held up the beginning of a sweater so we could all see it.

Diane was on the screen too, with one of Suzy Fatzinger’s Shawls draped over her shoulders.  I felt warmer and snuggly just looking at her.

The shawl was a beautiful combination of natural colors, similar to Suzy’s lastest and last shawl of the season Osage and Oatmeal. 

The pale green wool in Suzy’s shawl is naturally dyed from an Osage tree.  And that warm white along the edge is called Oatmeal.  Much of the mohair  Suzy used in the shawl comes from her angora goats, Lucy, Alice, April and Ruth.  But she likes to add other wool to her shawls too, like the locks spun into the white.

We’re already sold eight  of Suzy’s hand spun hand knit shawls this fall.  Each one unique.  Each one a soft and warm wearable piece of art.

Osage and Oatmeal is 19″x 65″ and is $175 + $15 shipping.  You can buy it in my Etsy Shop, just click here.  You can also email me about it at [email protected].  I take checks, PayPal and Venmo. 

I don’t have to wonder if Suzy’s color choices for her shawls are influenced by the natural world.   I just have to look at the photos she sends of her shawls with the landscape behind them.

Osage and Oatmeal , named for some of the wool Suzy used to make it, is her last shawl of the season.  We’ll have to wait till next year for more.  I love how the subtly of the colors reveal themselves.  The pinkish tinged white is called Oatmeal and the solid green stripe is naturally dyed with Osage, a tree in the mulberry family.

The locks spun throughout the white is also naturally dyed.

The mohair Suzy uses in her Shawls come from her Angora goats Alice, Ruth, Lucy and April.  The naturally dyed wool in Osage and Oatmeal comes from a fiber artist who Suzy met at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.

As always, each of Suzy’s shawls is a unique piece of wearable art.   She hand spins all the yarn and hand knits each shawl.   They are washed in a natural solution which makes them extra soft.

Osage and Oatmeal is 19″x65″ and is $175 + $15 shipping.  You can buy it in my Etsy Shop, just click here.  Or you can email me at [email protected].  I take checks, PayPal and Venmo.

Below is a video of Suzy’s goats April, Alice, Lucy and Ruth.

When I looked the picture of  Suzy’s new Shawl, I saw Zinnia and Dahlias.

Not the flowers when they first started to bloom, but the flowers they become this time of year.   Their colors deeply rich and saturated.   I saw my back porch garden. A garden wise with the experience of a lifetime.

The more time you spend looking at  Fall Garden, the more you see.  The sumptuous colors are highlighted by the lacy natural white.  And what at first might appear a solid color is really a mix of many colors.

Notice the pale green locks spun into the green strip on the bottom of the shawl.

Each of Suzy’s shawls is a unique piece of wearable art.  They are all hand spun and hand knit using the mohair from her Angora Goats and wool from some of her favorite fiber artists.

Suzy’s Fall Garden Shawl is 20″x72″ and is $175 + $15 shipping.  You can buy it in my Etsy Shop,  just click here.  Or you can email me at [email protected]. I take checks, PayPal and Venmo.

This is a video of Suzy’s goats.  That’s Ruth and Alice who come right up to the camera.  April and Lucy are there too.

Nebulas and galaxies, the milky way and Saturn’s rings.

Maybe it was because I was just looking at the photos of  Space in National Geographic that the first thing I thought of when I saw Suzy’s latest shawl was the night sky.

If you look at the broad dark areas, they are speckled with color and texture (stars and planets).  Pinks and purples, deep reds, specks of turquoise and shades of white (like a nebula).

Softer on one side of the shawl and richer on the other.  There are so many subtleties in this shawl including that lavender hued gray.

And the dark stripe along the bottom is my sheep Issachar’s wool.   Suzy loves spinning and knitting it, she tells me it’s too good a wool to use for dryer balls.  (Which is how I’ve been using it).

As most of you know by now Suzy’s hand spins and hand knits her shawls.  Each shawl is a unique creation of wearable art.

The mohair comes from her angora goats, Alice, April, Lucy and Ruth.   She sent me the video below of her goats.  That’s Ruth and Alice who come right up to the camera and smile.

Suzy’s shawl Night Sky is 20″ x 71″.  It is $175 + $15 shipping you can buy it in my Etsy Shop, just click here.  Or you can email me at [email protected].  I take checks, PayPal and Venmo. 

Suzy sent me a photo of her latest Shawl last night.   It was only when I looked at the picture this morning that I thought of the dream I had of the yellow butterflies in the yellow room.

Suzy’s shawl has the same glow and softness, the variations of yellow, and even a hint of the monarch butterfly wings in the stripe of the darker mix of colors.

Now I’m thinking that Suzy’s shawl inspired the yellows in my dream.  A dream of warmth and renewal.

So I’ve decided to call it Yellow Butterfly.

Suzy hand spins and hand knits all of her shawls.  The mohair she uses comes from her angora goats, April, Alice, Ruth, and Lucy.  She also uses roving from some of her favorite fiber artists.

After Suzy finished a shawl, she washes it in a natural solution to make it even softer.

Yellow Butterfly is 18″x68″ and is $175 + $15 shipping.  You can buy it in my Etsy Shop, just click here or you can email me at [email protected].  I take checks, PayPal and Venmo. 

When Suzy sent me the picture of her latest  Shawl I found myself smiling.

“This one makes me smile.  I have always enjoyed my Chartreuse.” Suzy texted me.   When I showed it to Jon, he had the same reaction.

That’s how it came to be the “Shawl of Smiles.”

It’s a colorful delight.  Sure to warm a person in two ways this coming winter.  First with its soft handspun mohair, then with the way it will bring so much color and brightness to whoever wears it.

As you all probably already know each of Suzy’s shawls is a unique piece of wearable art.  Below is a photo of her angora goats, where she gets the mohair that she hand spins, then hand knits into one of her creations.

We’ve already sold four of Suzy’s shawls in the past few weeks.  They are very popular and she has many repeat buyers.

When I used to sell Suzy’s Shawls at the Bedlam Farm Open Houses, it was always such a thrill to open the box she sent them in.  To see Suzy’s own particular way of combining colors and textures.  And to feel the soft yarn brush against the backs of my hands.

You can click here to see a  video of Suzy spinning her mohair.  It’s only one part of her creative process that begins with caring for her goats, Lucy, Ruth, Alice and Apirl.

Suzy’s Shawl of Smiles is 18″ x 67″ and is $175 + $15 shipping.  You can buy it in my Etsy Shop, just click here.  Or you can email me at [email protected].  I take checks, PayPal and Venmo.