warm with a breeze, but not really that sunny.
knitwear blocking weather, for sure.
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transformation
oh, how i love it
when things like this
(my very hastily and poorly sketched out idea of colorwork on a sleeve):
turn into things like this:
the actual colors of this lorna’s laces yarn
have to remain under wraps until tnna in may,
but i can tell you that it’s lovely and certainly something
that if i was at all skilled at dying
(which i am not)
i would have chosen to dye up for my very own.
‘skilled’ taken from 35:25 of exodus.
in this moment
i’ve been doing a little 2 steps forward, 3 steps back
with this new cabled design.
fresh ideas are often like that for me, never a straight line
of forward motion from beginning to end.
it’s a good thing that
it’s the process of the knitting i love.
if i only had my sights on the reward of reaching the goal,
and wasn’t able to enjoy the tangental paths that take me there
i’d be miserable doing what i do.
helps immensely
to be surrounded by yarn and needles
that i really like working with.
in this case, it’s rowan’s cocoon and the new handcrafted
hexagonal needles from indian lake artisans.
now, tonight i’ll move a few more
steps forward, and see if they stick or not.
rising to the challenge
i was challenged.
three pieces of my art a day
for five days.
good music is such an art.
here’s my attempt.
sun(ny)day
five-five
my kids made me crackers.
all by themselves they cut in the shortening,
rolled out the dough, etched the circles, and added a ‘secret’ message.
sj, ez, elsa + t, i ‘heart’ u, too!
love how the exclamation mark starts a line,
like the end of the row was an inconvenience for their creativity,
so they just plowed right through it.
yup, those are my kids.
100 percent.
‘the starry’
super cute little babies (my friends’ girls)
in sweet little star topped hats.
well then, you can’t beat that.
purple toned yarn is raventwist’s sloan in colorway ‘nights in marrakech’
with photos by darcy lyons photography.
photos by kiki taboh
of the blue toned yarn is zitron’s unisono in color #1220.
timing
this is the old Christmas cactus
that peers down over the top edge of
the highest cupboard in my kitchen.
when i was in jr high
it hung
in the sunny window of my bedroom.
i counted its blooms as i daydreamed
while my unfinished homework lay untouched in my lap.
now i marvel that no matter how far off calendar it gets,
those blooms never fail
to cheer me
just when i feel myself begin to lose heart
over one thing or another.
things that will surely pass, before
i spy the first tiny buds that will mark a new season’s beginnings.
‘lose heart’ taken from 4:16 in 2nd corinthians.
sometimes
there are yarns that scream to be knit.
for me, heather prime alpaca was too loud to ignore.
this sport weight fiber is spun
into generous skeins
(600 yds each).
i want to live
surrounded by its soft halo.
i could go on and on and…
but the nutshell version
is: this is my
other favorite
galler yarns fiber.
really, it speaks for itself.
and don’t miss the opportunity to win a skein.
leave a comment here, by midnight of saturday the 8th of december.
‘spun’ taken from 35:25 of exodus.
Classic Elite Yarns for Fall ’12
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