winter play

Look what a three-day weekend can produce!

First up...a new to me yarn: Socktopus Sokkusu Original yarn in "Spring Storm" (I got mine here).

I've never used this yarn before and wanted to give it a whirl...I'm so glad I did. I heart it!

It could be my new favorite yarn. Seriously. 

I. Heart. It.

The pattern...dang, I'll prob'ly get a poopy label for this (smile) but it's of my own making from one of BW's Treasuries.

Is there anything better to do in the depths of winter than to play in new yarn and new patterns?

Nope.

Play on!

Play is the exultation of the possible.

~Martin Buber   

trickster

I saw this color in use a short while ago on Ravelry and had to have it. I just had to!

It's STR 'ghoulash'

While on our way to the coast a few weeks ago, we stopped in Cannon Beach and checked out one of my favorite yarn stores that carries BMFA...Lo and behold...the color was there! woo hoo!

And the pattern...another pair of Intrepid Travelers...what can I say...there's a method to my madness of preferring memorizable patterns...I can travel light and paper free!

But look...the heel is different! By the time I got to the heel I had this book in my hot little hands, and knew I had to try the linen stitch heel instead of the eye of partridge that I was thinking about doing for a change of pace.

Love. It.

Oh yeh....I added a picot edge instead of the original ribbed edging, too...no surprise there, right? LOL!

Oh how this color has brightened up the days around here!

I hope you have a fabulouse weekend! xo

Kind hearts are the gardens,

Kind thoughts are the roots,

Kind words are the flowers,

Kind deeds are the fruits,

Take care of your garden

And keep out the weeds,

Fill it with sunshine

Kind words and kind deeds.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

peek-a-blue

Something a little old...and a little new.

I started these quite awhile ago, never finished them, and thought I'd get them back in the active queue (and maybe finished!) before the end of the year. 

Intrepid Traveler, by me, in STR...I don't remember the color, but it isn't a rare gem or a mill end...so I'm not a poopy! :)

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

~Paul Gauguin

prodigal of blue

Nature rarer uses yellow

Than another hue;

Saves she all of that for sunsets,

~Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman,

Yellow she affords

Only scantly and selectly,

 

Like a lover's words.

~Emily Dickinson

sock pattern by me in Zen Yarn Garden Serenity Sock

autumn joy

Happy autumn!!

What better way to ring in my most favorite season than with a PSL accompanied by woolies!

Wishing you a bounty of warm smiles and wooly joy this autumn season! xo

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.

The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg,

 and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

~James Allen 

autumn's cheer

Happy September!!

In my little book of rules, the first of September is the beginning of autumn...

...and despite the presence of the sun last evening...

...the crisp air shouted "autumn" loud and clear!

It's time to pull out your woolies!! Happy dance!! :)

Happy Friday-eve!!

 

By all these lovely tokens

September days are here,

With summer’s best of weather

And autumn’s best of cheer.

~Helen Hunt Jackson

happy stitching

Something came in the mail this week....

...aren't they pretty?

Tiny dose stitch markers in Lime green and Swimming Pool blue from the Velvet Hippo.

Torii is a sweetheart...she custom made these markers, and they fit my sock needles perfectly!

I lovelovelove them!!

Happy Stitching, indeedy!! Especially with markers that coordinate with my knitting!! :)

And a very happy weekend to you!! xo

  

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands,

but let it go,

and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

~Maxim Gorky 

table for four

Two socks joined us for dinner al fresco Friday.

The pasta was delish...it was a lovely way to start the weekend.

The guests: Hedgehog Fibres and Mama Llama yarns in the current patterns de l'été.

sigh...yum...but we still had room to split a lemon cake with berries.

Now, that's a way to start a weekend!

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold,

it would be a merrier world.

~J.R.R. Tolkien

emerging

Look at what has developed since the last time you saw this yarn!

Another picot edge...it must be that picot time of year.

And a simple little stitch pattern...perfect for summer knitting!

I hope you all have a great weekend...if you're celebrating Independence Day--have fun and stay safe in all your travels and celebrations! xoxo

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living,

new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

~Henry Van Dyke

a so far untitled pattern by me in mama llama perfect sock yarn 'jelly fish' 

busy blues

Ahhhh....Friday.

As usual, it couldn't arrive soon enough.

I've been a busy girl...remember the Hedgehog Fibres yarn from last week...

well, it's rapidly becoming a sock.

Of course it had to have a picot edge...and a memorizable stitch pattern...

These cool colors are the perfect antidote to the warm evenings....ok, in my book anything above 70F is warm...just sayin'!

Wishing you a bee-zy and fun weekend!! xo

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

~Henry David Thoreau 

the river

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge 

and lean over to watch the river 

 

slipping slowly away beneath you, 

you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

~Winnie the Pooh 

Hedgehog Fibres sock yarn in 'down by the river'.

Happy Friday!! xo