I completed my own KAL project for the Leap into Spring KAL/CAL. I made Sedna’s Shawl by Mary Lena Lynx, a cotton triangular shawl with a crocheted lace border. I was excited about this shawl when I first saw it because I wanted something in cotton suitable for our Mediterranean summer beach weekends. I always manage to feel chilled after a day in the water. I also like these kinds of wraps for tying around my waist as a casual beach cover-up. So this is an item I’ll get plenty of use out of during the spring and summer to come.
Rather than striping two different colors, I found a variagated cotton I’ve had stashed for awhile and wanted to use – Elann Sonata. 
It made for a simple knit. The crocheted border worked up quickly and I think is such a pretty addition to this casual wrap!
But, enough about my project. The participants in our Ravelry Group really came up with some gorgeous projects for this KAL/CAL! You can see the lovely finished objects in our contest thread.
We now have the pleasure of giving away a spring inspired prize package consisting of these beautiful leafy stitch markers, along with a clasp stitch marker , so generously donated by:
Spindle Cat Studio
We certainly appreciate our sponsors and hope you’ll think of this shop when you’re shopping for stitch markers, shawl pins and the like! Kate has some unique and lovely items at very reasonable prices.
We’re also including a fully lined leaf project bag stitched by Carli and a pretty green skein of Araucania Lace Merino.
We had eleven finishers and we ran the random number generator to select our winner:
drumroll please! :
Congratulations to Jenniferwingard!
she made: A Wrap for all Seasons
Contact us to provide a mailing address and we’ll get your spring inspired prize package right out to you!
What a fun process this was! We saw some pretty knitting and crochet projects and got to know one another just a little better. We’d like to invite all our readers to join our Ravelry Group. We have a friendly bunch of Crafty Friends who’d love to have you join and inspire us with your craftiness!
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You’ve got to be kidding me! I can’t believe I won. That is just so hilarious because I got material ironed last night so I could cut out a leaf bag and put it together today. I guess I don’t need to now.
Believe it, Jennifer! Well, now you can sew your leaf bag and use it for a swap or something!
Thank you so much for posting your beautiful shawl. I have several 10 packs of Elan Sonata in my stash for years and have never found anything suitable for the beautiful colors, until now. I will be making a Sonata shawl.
How great, Sheri! So glad I could help you stashbust! Since you have the benefit of my experience, I’d share that if I had it to do again, (which I do because I have another bag of it and my sister needs one of these shawls!), I’d use a size or two larger needles – maybe 7′s or 8′s. The fabric was a little stiff, although it blocked out nicely.