*** Hey Guys! The current link to the pattern has been updated-- it’s not dead anymore!****

I went to Dallas ComicCon on Saturday the 5th of April, and I had a blast! I wore the Saffron costume that I had worked very hard on, which was great because Christina Hendricks, the actress that played her, was there! My experiance meeting her was priceless.
I’d never been to a convention before, so I was a little nervous. When I walked through the door, I approached a fellow dressed as Mal because he looked like a man who knew what I needed to know. Turns out he did, but his price for the information was a picture with this Devil Woman. He led me right to her table, where there was a relatively short line. I waited patiently for a few moments, listening while the lovely Miss Hendricks talked to the people in front of me. She is so beautiful in person! (she is my ultimate girlcrush). But, and this is where the really cool part starts, I kid you not, half way through a conversation with another patron she caught sight of me out of the corner of her eye. She STOPPED talking to the person, went “Ooooh!” took out her camera phone, and snapped a picture of me, them went back to buisness as usual.
I waited a few more minutes, and then finally it was my turn! She kept going on about my attention to detail and how accurate I looked! She loved my shawl– I took it off so she could see it better and she just went on and on about it. She knits too! Hearing her compliment my work meant so much to me! She even signed my autograph to “my twin”! She really made my first convention amazing.

After posting pictures of my costume, I received an overwhelming amount of reqests for the pattern on livejournal and at Ravelry, so without further ado, the Mrs. Reynolds Shawl pattern.

(this is by no means screen-accurate, but if it’s good enough for the REAL Saffron, its good enough for me Oh, and I don’t own anything related to Firefly, Serenity, or Mutant Enemy– that’s all Joss’s territory. I just obsess over it…)