BRR...Bike Ride to Rippey

Bikers will be braving the cold to make the ride from Perry to Rippey for the

35th annual BRR Ride Saturday, Feb. 4.

Stop in Mary Rose for hot cider while you browse.

Stay warm by wrapping one of Jan Busby's unique, handmade ruffled crocheted scarves around your neck--even more than once. Choose from many colors, textures, designs, and lengths.

Jan Busby also creates purses made from wool blend suit coats. She often incorporates the suit coat pocket into the fully-lined bag. Long handles make it easy to sling over your shoulder.

Jan and her husband, Gary, are also innkeepers at their Yellow Swan Bed and Breakfast in Dallas Center, www.yellowswanbb.com.

More wooly, woolies...A crocheted flower attached to these hats I crocheted add a bit of flair. I crocheted the hat on the right from yarn hand-spun by Marrie Williams from Kelley, Iowa.

Keep your hands warm and cozy with felted wool mittens handmade by Janice Johnston from Rippey, Iowa. Janice creates her mittens from felted wool sweaters and lines them with soft fleece.

...Penguins on these mittens

A wool scarf handspun by Sally Farley

and handcrocheted, with a button closure

Another one, over nine feet long with wonderfully nubby textures

Choose from our wall of handspun yarn draped over a vintage iron bed

to make your own creations.