ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A local livestock club weaved a woolen shawl celebrating the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary that will go up for sale at the Allentown Fair.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County 4-H Livestock Club created the 100% woolen shawl, according to a news release from Penn State Extension \u2013 Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
The shawl will be sold at the livestock sale at the fair on Sept. 5 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
This is the fifth year that the club has made a shawl, under the direction and guidance of Roger and Nancy Bowman.<\/p>\n
The proceeds from the sale go to charities in the Lehigh Valley, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
Members chose the colors, designed the shawl, and completed the weaving project.<\/p>\n
Margaret Wright, a member of the \u201cBaaad Girls\u201d sheep-to-shawl team, taught club members a new weaving technique called \u201cover-shot,\u201d to help them create the shawl with red and white striped, blue weft and a star pattern, the Lehigh County 4-H Livestock Club said.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County 4-H Livestock Club said Winterside Farm provided yarn and weaving equipment.<\/p>\n
The shawl was woven on a rigid needle loom and the wool used includes Corriedale wool yarn from sheep raised in Berks County, according to the news release.<\/p>\n
The 4-H Youth have chosen to divide the proceeds of the shawl auction between \u201cSpecial Fairs Fund\u201d of The Great Allentown Fair Foundation<\/a> and Battle Borne<\/a>, both organizations in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A local livestock club weaved a woolen shawl celebrating the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary that will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1101,19803,153,155,154,116262,116258,51894,116259,116260,116261],"class_list":["post-277520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown-fair","tag-battle-borne","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-great-allentown-fair-foundation","tag-lehigh-county-4-h-livestock-club","tag-penn-state-extension","tag-shawl","tag-weaving","tag-wool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}