hello

A little wordless today...

Just a little wish for a...

...Happy Friday-eve!

The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.

~Elizabeth Lawrence 

Reagan sock pattern by Liz Abinante in STR 'lettuce knit'

lavender squared

And more knitting is afoot! Fancy that!

The first monkey sock is finished and the second one is off to a good start.

I'm not sure I'll have anything fresh for you tomorrow, so I'll wish you a happy Friday-eve now,

and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! xo

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune --

oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!

~Emily Dickinson 

Monkey sock pattern by Cookie A in STR 'lavender truffle'

pixels 'n prose

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

~Victor Hugo

progress

A wee bit of progress has been made on the knitting front since I blogged last.

The leg of the second Reagan sock has been started...

...and the second leg of the 'picot time of year' sock is well underway, too.

Thank you for all your kind words about the ladybugs and dragonfly images! :) Someone asked me about the colors of the ladybugs in our area...we have red, red-orange, orange, and buff--with spots and without.

I hope you're having a great week!

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

~Jim Rohn

the return

Look who're back in town!

The Queen Anne's Lace is in its full glory,

and the ladies are celebrating!

It was either photographing them, or socks last evening.

Socks are always around, so I grabbed Mr. NK and we went out in search of lace and ladies.

I hope you don't mind!

He travels best that knows when to return.

~Thomas More 

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon;

to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

~Henry James

We're coming to the end of the first week of August and the first week of summer afternoons all at the same time. Imagine that!

Do you have any plans for the weekend? We're hanging out here at Chez NK getting caught up with some gardening, photography, and of course...knitting!
Wishing you a grand weekend! xo

show and tell

A little show and tell from Sock Summit.

My first stop was at the Becoming Art booth as I had been after a skein of Sanguine Sky for quite awhile.

Isn't it gorgeous? A couple more skeins from Lisa fell into my bag, too.

Sock knitting was virtually non-existent during the festivities of Sock Summit; I need to catch up a bit and will hopefully have some sock progress to blog about soon!!

There is no must in art because art is free.

~Wassily Kandinsky  

Becoming Art skeins in Atlas sock 'Midnight Mountain',

and Agave fingering (MCN) in 'Sanguine Sky' and 'Pristinely Ungifted'.

summits

Is there a better way to celebrate the advent of Sock Summit 2011...

...than with a plethora of socks on the needles?

I think not.

Truth is the summit of being;

justice is the application of it to affairs.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Monkey sock pattern by Cookie A in STR 'lavender truffle'

Reagan sock pattern by Liz Abinante in STR 'lettuce knit'

picot time of year pattern by me in mama llama perfect sock yarn 'jelly fish'

cool blues  pattern by me in hedgehog fibres sock yarn 'down by the river'

soul of the home

Which sock pattern do these picots grace? Can you guess?

I've knit 13 of these socks. It has been a long, long while since I knit the last one. Thirteen seemed like a good place to stop. A lucky place, perhaps.

(hint: counting socks on Ravelry won't help you guess the pattern, as some of these socks never made it to Ravelry, apparently!!)

A wise, knitterly friend told me that 14 would be luckier.

...I took it to heart and started planning the next sock!

Do you know what these are yet?

Yep. A Monkey sock.

The 14th Monkey.

Here's to a little extra luck!!

Happy weekend! xo 

I love cats because I enjoy my home;

and little by little, they become its visible soul.

~Jean Cocteau 

Monkey sock pattern by Cookie A in STR 'lavender truffle'

fresh

Something new this way comes...

An STR mill end from a few shows ago...I think it is probably the Lettuce Knit colorway.

I was inspired by Cristi to also knit the Goneril and Reagan pattern although it wasn't chosen for the Q3 STR KAL on Ravelry.

Sometimes a girl just has to knit what a girl wants to knit, period.

I love the scroll pattern.

I hope you all had a great weekend...quiet, and rainy in these parts.

A good time to work on something new.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Reagan sock pattern by Liz Abinante in STR

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 

pixels 'n prose



The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time,

but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order:

the continuous thread of revelation.

~Eudora Welty 

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

summer daze

I can't believe it's been a week since my last post.

Sigh.

Summer is here...with little doubt.

We've had our first two consecutive days over 80F in 305 days.

The roads are full of blooms and grasses.

Photowalks and the sound of the shutter clicking is replacing the needles most evenings.

But not totally!

Happy Friday! xo

"I've been thinking Hobbes"

 "On a weekend?"

"Well, it wasn't on purpose..."

~Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)