July craft-a-Poem: Scarflette

This is my second project for “Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there,” by John Keats for the July Craft-a-Poem Challenge:

 

KEEN, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there

Among the bushes half leafless, and dry;

The stars look very cold about the sky,

And I have many miles on foot to fare.

Yet feel I little of the cool bleak air,

Or of the dead leaves rustling drearily,

Or of those silver lamps that burn on high,

Or of the distance from home’s pleasant lair:

For I am brimfull of the friendliness

That in a little cottage I have found;

Of fair-hair’d Milton’s eloquent distress,

And all his love for gentle Lycid drown’d;

Of lovely Laura in her light green dress,

And faithful Petrarch gloriously crown’d.

 

I wanted to make a scarflette or wrap that would protect the speaker (if the speaker were female) from the “cool bleak air” on the long night walk. I modified the Victoriana Scarflette to have knitted leaves at the end of the ties (instead of crocheted flowers) to represent the “dead leaves rustling drearily.” Finally, I chose green as a nod to Laura’s green dress (though my green isn’t “light green,” I think the dead leaf color matches the poem’s mood better).

 

Done