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This was designed for DFW Fiber Fest 2018 in collaboration with McKinney Knittery.

Pattern goes live April 6, 2018 at DFW Fiber Fest at the McKinney Knittery Booth. An exclusive code for the pattern will be available with specific yarn purchase during the weekend of the event.

$2 of every purchase goes to the Beagle Freedom Project to help end animal testing.

This is a one skein pattern, but results may vary depending on the yardage you start with. The pattern is laid out to use as much of your gorgeous skein as possible.

Magpie Swanky DK and YOTH Big Sister are the primary samples used in testing and execution.

Pattern Premise:
While my testers and I were working on this pattern, many visions of water and waves were coming to mind. That got me thinking.

I was lucky enough to grow up overseas in a little town in West Germany called Mainz, which sits along the Rhein River. My family spent many a weekend traveling up and down that river wandering through castles and finding waterfalls and rock falls and just so many things for a kid of 6 to 13 to discover.

I’ve been to where that river flows out into the North Sea. We spent our last New Year, before returning States-side, on the island Borkum, finding starfish and seaweed and just enjoying the patterns the waves made on the beach, knowing that some of the waves carried water from my beloved Rhein.

Years later I made my own way to Northern California and regularly took my beloved Cliffy Mutt to Salmon Creek beach to play in the waves, enjoy the ocean, and to get away from it ‘all.’ It helped me recharge through many personal struggles.

Pertinacity itself is a mix of courage, conviction, and a little (in my case a lot of) stubbornness. Like the water of our beloved haunts, our life itself is Pertinacity. You stick with it. You do not give up. You keep going.

Water’s pertinacity shows in the paths it carves to make its way. These days, I tell my story of pertinacity with the designs I bring you. I hope that, in some small way, working this cowl will help you find your pertinacity.