MBMM #26

A dream I had since high school was to enter the "Make It With Wool" contest someday. In the late 90's I was at the fabric store and saw this pink wool--which I had to have! I knew immediately what it would become. This is a Kinsale cloak, from Folkwear Patterns, where you can buy patterns to sew authentic reproductions of ethnic clothing from the past. It is a cloak in the style that Irish folk wore and handed down in families. Of course, the ooriginals were usually brown, gray, or black tweed wool, not pink!

I took this to the regional contest and was chosen to go to the state level,

where I won 3rd place!

I still wear it occasionally, and have loaned it out to women who

need something dressy and warm for special occasions.