Very pretty! Fun to be first post!

It's beautiful! Does Sam get to keep it?? ;)

How nice to make the knit fit the location it was made. Love that!

If any Dominican was headed to Canada you'd bet they'd become a lot more concerned about staying warm.

You enabler you! After listening to Over the Rainbow by IZ and then reading this---I just had to buy it. Now to go stash diving....while humming over the rainbow...mmmm...mmm...mmm oooo.

Bluebonnet! Sending warm thoughts your way from Texas because there's not yet a way to mail warm air.

Snowstorm?!?!? *runs to theweathernetwork.com*

Sam is beautiful... She may be cold but she pulls it off with grace.

What a beautiful story!

You can assure San that everyone who lives somewhere cold most certainly recognized that as "wtf with this wind, seriously, right in the eyes".

It looks gnarly laid out flat but seems to have plenty of useful bits.

Speaking of priorities, a write-up and photos of Sam's birthday party should be much higher on your list.

Because you made her before you made the scarf.

Oh dear! Another pattern added to my Ravelry 'favourites' list. For what it's worth, I've never worn the Color Affection I made, despite the time I spent spinning three colours of Shetland fibre for it. I don't think my shoulders are built for that shape of wrap/scarf. I also got a bit of a 'bump' at the centre of the first colour which I really should deal with by unpicking from the cast on until it's flat and then casting off. Except I have several (quite a few if I'm honest) scarves and shawlettes I can wear.

Gorgeous, as always!

So I'm not the only one who picks projects according to my mood and location. I thought it was somehow 'unknitterly' of me. Glad to see it's pretty normal. Great pictures of Sam!

The yarn and the model are lovely. Hard to tell about the scarf, though. Seems there was too much wind!

I love it when my yarn matches my surroundings. It was a perfect choice for your vacation project.

So beautiful that I bought the pattern on ravelry!

That is so pretty!

I've been looking at this pattern on Ravelry for the last week-trying to figure what yarn to use. Something in my stash? Order something new? I had decided last night that I really needed to finish the Kozue I started in December before I start another scarf. Now all bets are off I Must Knit Windward........
NOW. (you're an enabler, you know that, right?)

I love this pattern and yours is beautiful!

I definitely relate to the fear of being without knitting. I always travel with way more yarn and projects that ends up being necessary. Your project turned out beautifully - thanks for the story & the photos!

I totally get the need for emergency yarn and I love what you did with it. I think canada is a wonderful place for such a gorgeous scarf to live. and I hope Sam gets it. She wears it so well!
thanks for the story!

The scarf is beautiful, and Sam is a very good sport.

Brrrrrrr! Makes me chilly just looking at her! Take heart, Canadians, Spring really is on its way.

"like the bathroom" LOL!!!

Looks gorgeous. Bravo you two. By mid-day it was lovely down there by the lake...I cycled down and had a picnic on a park bench!

Sam is a fabulous model for knitted goodies - very photogenic. Nice scarf too!

I am almost finished with that very scarf. Something about the last, teeny-tiny section is making me nervous. I dunno. But it's beautiful--made from Wollmeise. I'm hoping you've inspired me to finish...

I'm grinning over here because I know that Toronto Harbourfront wind, and how it tends to obscure the finer details of a knit. How well I remember gritting my teeth and saying, "Lie FLAT, dammit! I can't get a picture of you if you don't lie FLAT!" The wind doesn't cooperate.

And I believe Windward meets that 'chic rag' thang you admire, right?

Also, Sam should become a professional knit model. Seriously, she just gets better and better!

Finally, I started Cold Mountain on a recent mini-ski-vaca to Mammoth Mountain, CA. Actually, mostly I knit Bandana Cowls (seems we couldn't get enough of them), but Cold Mountain was picked for the trip. Using a whack of Jaggerspun. Should be delicious when its done.

Oh wow--so pretty! The color reminds me of beach glass :)

I love the color and can appreciate the work that went into the construction and shape of the scarf. And it looks good on Sam. But, I am more of a "structured" type person, so this pattern would not be for me.

I'm afraid I would have tried to even off the edges. Truely an unusual construction that would not me for me at all. Love the colorway.

You have such a patient family.

Mmmmm . . . love these colors against the backdrop of the Caribbean!!

Its interesting how the blues look more vivid on vacation than they do in the Canadian winter!

I'm really impressed at how wind-like the silhouette of the scarf is. I love souvenir knitting!

it's so pretty! what a dramatic shawl :)

Both Sam and the scarf look great. Maybe she should get one too since she stood out in the cold as your model? Then you'd match even more! ;)

Why resigned? Windward got to travel, and may yet again.

What a united world of weather we live in. The colours that are so remindful of the sunny beaches and sea and sky you were at a few weeks ago team up with the colours of your own icy, snowy and windy homeground. Extra ordinary, it is a two continents shawl.

Beautiful scarf; gorgeous Sam!

Poor tropical scarf. A Canadian winter is a harsh fate for it. I'd suggest that I could make it feel warmer, but Boston isn't significantly better than Toronto for a tropical scarf. Maybe there is a knitter in Maui or Fiji.

Lovely, lovely, lovely! (And she trots off to buy some new yarn.)

I WONDERED what had happened to the Tosh! Most appropriate!

And I bet you'll think of Cabarete every single time you see that scarf :) What a wonderful trip souvenir!

I love this post! What a divine colour, so perfect!

I've never commented. Just read, smile, laugh and get inspired. But had to say what a photogenic and beautiful daughter you have.

I made my Windward (with Noro Silk Garden Sock) after you first mentioned the pattern on this blog. I get compliments every time I wear it!

The scarf looks lovely and so does Sam (even if she is really, really cold).

What a pretty colorway and scarf! How sad it must be to have left the Caribbean and be freezing in Canada.

And bless Sam for posing on such a bitterly cold day!

Woah, stop there. I need to look up what this "snow" stuff is...
The scarf and Sam are beautiful!

Love love love Windward! I made one for my niece and immediately had to make my own. Love your colourway!

Gorgeous scarf - brave model! She deserves to keep this now - I think you already know that right? Off to check out the pattern.

Cute post. Lovely girl! Poor, cold scarf...

I love the scarf, and Sam is a lovely model. I second the "she should model knits" suggestion. I have some hand dyed that might just fit this pattern.

The huge 7-11 slurpy that nature has dumped on us in the GTA was on its way when Sam was modelling. No wonder she was freezing. Today is a day to stay in the house and knit. Your scarf is lovely.

A spin on the old proverbial postcard: you had a great time, and now you have your wish of always having a little bit of it here with you.

Sam looks so lovely with the Caribbean wrapped around her at water's edge.

I had been wondering what the gorgeous yarn was. Thanks for sharing. Maybe you can take your new knitted friend on an occasional pilgrimage to someplace where kite sailing is embraced. Good a reason as any for an island vacation, no?

Gorgeous! Love that shawl! And Sam makes it look beautiful!

I have tried to make the Color Affection three times, and even tried the YO at the beginning of rows, but kept having a REALLY tight edge and gave up. Wish I could figure out how to make it!

From my count, there is a consensus that Samantha really should consider professional modeling. Of course, she will always credit her mom for launching her career.

Lovely memory scarf, mom.

I am on my way to the Caribbean next week with plenty of air time. Still mulling over my knitting. I am leaning toward an Ottenberg scarf with Pygora yarn-it is light weight afterall. This would be my nondrinking knitting. Knitting in the tropics can be interesting. As I said, there is plenty of air time.

I made a windward last year in smooshy with cashmere. I wore it to Alaska last September and then my 20 something daughter claimed it as hers. She says she gets a lot of complements on it and I bought the yarn to make another one, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Planning a trip to Caribbean next January, already trying to decide what kind of knitting to take!

How nice that you can wrap the Caribbean sun around you to keep you warm in the Canadian winter.

Great story! Pretty scarf! Beautiful daughter! And you still have three skeins for an autumn project.

How beautiful! I love you how you tie in your physical surrounding with your choice of pattern.

Isn't it great that you have such lovely daughters to model your knitting for you?

Sam is beautiful. Windward is beautiful. You are beautiful.

I love the idea of knitting with the COLOURS of a place you are visiting. Now, I need to visit somewhere....

I knit that pattern and *love* the result. You've made me want to knit another...to the stash!

If Sam didn't look so cold and mildly miserable and beautiful all at the same time then I wouldn't be looking at the Windward pattern and thinking that I need to knit that scarf! Sam is the perfect model for knitted items. Beautiful and lovely and I love the "true" expressions of emotion. Tell her I said that, because she needs to know.

Goodness, that scarf/wrap is wonderful and so are the other patterns from the designer. Sam is stunning too.

Gorge!
Us!

Sam looks gorgeous in that scarf! Definitely adding it to my queue.

Your comment bout how shocked the Dominicans were by knitting reminded me of an incident when I was vacationing in Tunisia in 2010. I was sitting alone by the pool knitting when I noticed a gardener lurking behind me. I turned around and smiled, said Bonjour, and he asked what I was doing. I said the obvious, "knitting" and he replied "just like in the movies."

Beautiful. (I vote that Sam gets to keep it.)

Cabarete beach ≠ Lake Erie beach. I live on the other side of Lake Erie from you, I know how that wind bites at you. Brave Samantha! And the scarf is exceedingly lovely!

Thanks for posting. This is why I knit. Everytime I look at something I made I remember the story behind it. Lovely.

This is gorgeous! I love the colours you have chosen.

Even in the freezing cold it looks beautiful and I can see why it fitted the scenery so well!

I found Windward when I found myself in need of a project while at the beach in North Carolina last summer. I needed yarn also, but left home without it because there's this sweet little fiber shop in Southport called Angelwing Enterprises...but that's another story. A very satisfying beach knit!

This is kind of silly, but... I have Windward in my queue and the yarn in my stash, so I was interested when it popped up in the "hot right now" section on Ravelry. Usually that means that there's a forum thread either about the pattern or including the pattern and ones like it (and who doesn't need more patterns in their queue?) so I skulked around Ravelry trying to figure out why Windward was "hot right now" but found nothing. And then I came here today and hah! Now I know. I will rest easier tonight.

That is a beautiful combination of yarn and pattern! Seemingly, right place, right time too.