Cecelia Campochiaro's newest design for the Bay Area Yarn Crawl is named Color Poem! Featuring our 2026 Bay Area Yarn Crawl colorways: Fairy Ring and Nirvana.
Color Poem is reversible, triangular-shaped, and features a slip stitch pattern from her newest book Reversible Knitting. The triangle is worked tip-up.
Color Poem comes in two sizes: a scarf and a larger shawl.
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The scarf version uses 5 colors of Floating 20g mini-skeins and is a mix of striped bands and solid-color bands. The ends from the color changes are secured with whip stitches, creating little nubs on the edges.
We have created three palettes for the scarf version that are designed especially for Cecelia's new design and are inspired by the colors found in our local redwood forests and the mushrooms found there. And, all three palettes include our 2026 Bay Area Yarn Crawl colorway, Fairy Ring, which has been dyed with one of our favorite, local mushrooms: Pisolithus tinctoria.
The three palettes are:
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Entering the Forest -- those first few moments, when you have entered the forest and you are surrounded by trees, their roots, bark, branches, and leaves. The trees reach far into the sky, their sweeping canopy nearly covering the sky and creating deep shadows. As your eyes adjust, you can start making out little mushrooms poking from under the dried leaves or along the tree's bark. As you come closer, you can see the small details like fur and stripes. This palette includes greens and a touch of lavender.
A - Beach Glass
B - Kombu
C - Fairy Ring
D - Ginger Green Tea
E - Wisteria
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The Feeling of When You Find a Mushroom -- is an extra special moment when the world falls away and your entire focus is on seeing this otherworldly specimen which brings so much delight and wonder. Often times, multiple types of mushrooms grow near one another, so you can almost be assured that as your eye travels up, down, left, and right, there will be more textures, shapes, and colors to enjoy.
A - Glow
B - Caterpillar
C - Zinc
D - Fairy Ring
E - Lamb's Ear
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Exiting the Forest - and then, inevitably, the sun begins to dip behind the trees and the forest grows darker. It is time to head back to the car, photos of mushrooms in hand, to go home, to cook and enjoy a meal and reminisce about the day's adventure.
A - Supernova
B - Nirvana
C - Fairy Ring
D - Purple Sand Beach
E - Jasper's Eyelashes
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The larger shawl version uses two colors of full-size skeins of Floating. For the larger Color Poem Shawl, we've paired a favorite Verb colorway, Sun-Dappled, with one of our new 2026 Bay Area Yarn Crawl colors: Nirvana. This steely blue has a gentle hint of periwinkle and is made using multiple layers of dye, including indigo. Sun-dappled is made by printing onto the yarn with our homegrown marigold petals.
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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
+ Scarf: approx. 50" [127 cm] wingspan and 15.5" [39 cm] depth. Measurements taken after blocking.
+ Shawl: approx. 73" [185 cm] wingspan and 24" [61 cm] depth. Measurements taken after blocking.
YARN
+ Scarf: FIVE mini skeins of Floating ( each)
+ Shawl: Two full-size skeins of Floating ( each)
NEEDLES
+ US 4 (3.5 mm) circular needles
TOOLS
+ One removable stitch marker
+ Tapestry needle
+ Digital kitchen scale to weigh yarn
PATTERN
Please purchase the pattern directly from Cecelia on Ravelry.
