High Hopes

Hope is a waking dream.
~Aristotle

Stash Love: Yellow

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

Happy Friday!

Mad World

I heart Adam. He is the cat's meow. A standing O from Simon. Be still my beating heart.

And yes, I think we'll be going to the AI tour when it hits PDX this summer.

Happy Friday-eve!

Signs of Spring

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

What surer sign of Spring then the emergence of a new sock! Yep. Shur'tugal designed by Alice Yu. These socks are for the KAL going on over at the STR group on Ravelry. Come join in the fun. These socks are in STR Citrine (med. wt.).

Happy Tuesday!

Stash love: Lost and Found

Do you remember these socks? Well, needless to say I did not get them finished by the first day of winter. Nor did I finish them by January 1st. Nor are they finished now.

Nope. These socks have been missing in action since about the time that last photo was taken.

I bought this yarn a couple of years ago for Halloween socks. Didn't cast on.
Then I figured they would be Thanksgiving socks. Still no cast on.

Flash forward a year. I got over the procrastination phase, cast on, but didn't finish them for Halloween, nor Thanksgiving. But they did get on the needles.

But then they went missing.
Very missing.

No sightings over many months. I had given them up for lost.
Then they were found. Never mind where. They were found. Progress ensues.

Happy Friday! And I hope you all have a fantastic weekend! Perhaps you'll find something you thought had been lost.

lace light

Nothing takes the chills away like a hot cappucino. Mr. NK and I had a quick meal at my new favorite hang-out in the Pearl district.

Doesn't lace look cool when backlit with window light?

Frosty monday

I've turned the heel on the first Rimefrost sock.

I love this pattern. It actually knits up pretty quickly. I've actually started the second sock and am working the two of them in tandem. Twice the fun!

Saturday was a jammie day spent knitting and watching MI-5...kind of an oxymoron that one. If you're a fan of MI-5, you know that your knitting is put on hold during the exciting parts (i.e. you must look up and actually watch, not just listen) of the show, which if you're a fan you know that is darn near the whole program, except for opening and closing credits. I persevered; thank goodness for the rewind button, right!!?

Happy Monday!!

Love your stash: BFF at play

Meet Rare Gem and Downpour

They both grew up in the same zipcode (BMFA)

They grew up to become Child's First Sock and Tesserae

But they never lost their sense of "play".

Not ever.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
~A.A. Milne

Spring love

It's been so chilly, I've been worried that spring would never get here...I was taken by surprise today to find spring not only in the garden...but in the mailbox, too!

Madelinetosh 'Clover' in Woolgirl's Easter kit!

A darling bag, chocolate, stunning handmade notecards, an awesome box with a vintage bunny on it, a little notebook, bunny themed tissues and cute stitchmarker, eggs filled with chocolate...Mercy! Jen!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! You so made my day...Nothing like an unexpected WG treat after the grant writing marathon...

I think we'll be back to chilly and rainy tomorrow...but me thinks the daffodils will keep the garden sunny, and a dear and special friend will keep my heart warm!

“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
~William Wordsworth