Tour of the Season II: Avonlea Color of the Month
This month's beautiful color is Avonlea, the fictional setting for the classic novel, Anne of Green Gables, a 1908 novel by Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Wonderland Yarns has created this lovely colorway on its Cheshire Cat base, their original fingering weight yarn with 512 yards/100% superwash merino.
Each skein includes links to one-skein project ideas, enameled stitch markers and a fun invitation to a summer picnic with project progress notes on the reverse.
About the book
Anne of Green Gables, is written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-20th century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of an 11-year-old orphan girl Anne Shirley sent by mistake to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town. Since its publication, Anne of Green Gables has been translated into at least 36 languages and has sold more than 50 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books worldwide to date in any language. -book notes from Wikipedia