what do you do when the sky is falling?
then you use the rubble to build something new.
here’s to change and the work
to make it happen.
last official day of school vacation.
all my kids seem to want to be in the same place:
working at my desk.
here are the younger two ‘sharing’ the space.
ironically, i’d like to be there too,
but i’ll have to wait until after their bedtime tonight.
so much fun to cram into these daylight hours first.
and off we go.
getting out of our pj’s
would be the best way to start, i suppose…
with go to patterns.
if they get stuck at
an airport,
or come to a place
that needs some pondering
on whatever
they’re currently working on,
they ‘go to’
their fail safe pattern.
they’ve made
it many times over.
the yarn weight
and needle size
and how many sts
to cast on
are always
on the tip of their minds.
they can merrily
start and work until
something stops them
at any given time.
oh, how i want one of these:
a pattern i get that also gets me.
one that is simple enough to live in my head,
but interesting enough i’d happily knit it over and over again.
to create one
with the ‘sandstone’ tones
in the mountain colors
that i’ve been swatching.
so far,
the balance between
easy enough to knit
without the pattern
in front of me
and interesting enough to knit more than once
is eluding me.
but, i think it will all come together soon
and this yarn is such a nice way to work through the process.
do you have a go to pattern?
please do share so it can inspire me.
thanks.
‘share’ taken from 4:28 in ephesians.
my 7 yr old, the artist, says ‘this is what my mama looks like today’.
‘looks’ taken from 11:4 of ecclesiastes.
any yarn can be cabled,
but not all of them do it well.
with a yarn that is too soft, you loose the crisp detail.
with a yarn too stiff, the gaps from pulling to twist the cables don’t fill in quite right.
i adore this simple cable knit up in
mountain colors hand-painted yarns’ ‘3 ply wool’
(shown in the colorway ‘sandstone’).
lots of stitch definition
and enough give to make the cabling look unforced.
today i’m still swatching,
but i feel like the yarn and i have almost
come to an agreement over what it intends to be.
more pics and the inspiration behind the process soon…
‘give’ taken from 18:36 in the psalms.
the mud of this earth does not have to be permanent.
wash me. please, wash me.
…and the winner,
of enough of julie asselin’s super bulky ‘yotta’ to knit up the neckwrap
‘water under the sky‘, is tinerw!
or as my cousins said at my graduation,
snoitalutargnoc (in true cousin style, they sang it in harmony)!
and for those who almost won,
julie has plenty of
amazing colors to check out. enjoy!
‘sang’ taken from 38:6-7 of job.
light as air.
harrisville tweed ‘spring thaw 2014’.
sunshine won’t ‘cha come out and play?
we’re more than ready.
i like to believe
that even our smallest actions count,
that they ripple out and affect people and things that we never even know about.
that’s the little stuff.
then there’s the big stuff, like birth.
at first we mostly change those closest to us because our worlds are so small,
but the more we grow, the more distinctive our impact becomes.
my newest pattern, laska, is all about that.
i’m told i think to much.
i am often accused of that.
so be it.
feel free to skip the rest
of my explanation
if this being a pretty blanket is enough for you.
each to his or her own.
in my head, the small center of the blanket represents the beginnings of a person.
the bands of stockinette stitch get wider and wider
with each repeat to show that choices
they matter
our whole lives through.
the final edge is garter stitch,
intentionally a combo of
the stockinette stitch
and reverse stockinette stitch
of all the other square bands.
as life, i think,
is a result of each thing
that we do or don’t do. symbolism just moves me.
i’m made that way. and i made this.
‘laska’ is polish for ‘grace’.
‘grace’ taken from 22:11 of proverbs.