Just listed in my
Etsy store, this ombre knitted scarf is named after one of my ultimate heroines, Isabella Bird.
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| Isabella shetland lace scarf - knitted from 100% pure wool & handmade in New Zealand |
A Victorian lady explorer who didn't let a little thing called convention stand in the way of doing what she wanted to do.
Isabella travelled the world, exploring China, Japan, Persia, India, Australia and even stopping off in my homeland of New Zealand (which she hated). She climbed volcanoes in Hawaii and refused to ride side saddle on her 800 mile journey through the Rockies.
While in Colorado she met and fell for the ultimate bad boy, an outlaw by the name of Rocky Mountain Jim. He liked his liquor and had lost an eye in an unfortunate incident taking on a grizzly bear. Isabella would say that he was
"a man any woman might love but no sane woman would marry". Yet together they would ascend mountains, including their famous ascent of Longs Peak.
