adieu november

Listen ...

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, 

frost-crisp'd,

break free from the trees

 And fall.

~Adelaide Crapsey 

Winter's knocking at the door.

Don't let the sunlight fool you.

We've had rain, frost, wind, rain, fog, and more rain.

Really...I think winter stopped politely knocking, and just stormed on in.

Koolhaas hat by Jared Flood in Yarn Daze Yucatan 'blue gem'.

This is the perfect yarn for this hat. Perfect.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house.

So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne  

morning lights

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

almost a pair

The second pair of toasty twist socks are well underway.

I love the pop of yellow in this colorway.

It definitely brightens the grayer days we've been having.

A little sock sandwich...Top Chef here I come!

I hope you're having a great week!

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

~Robert Browning 

Toasty Twist socks by Teresa Fox in an STR Mill End.

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

sweet november

A new month...

...and a new sock on the needles.

You've seen it before...it's Toasty Twist by Teresa Fox

The yarn is an STR mill end (if you like it, you might like ST-1).

Love the pattern.

Love the yarn.

Just how it should be.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

~Albert Camus

light and color

How beautifully leaves grow old. 

How full of light and color

 

are their last days.

~John Burroughs

parkside

There's nothing like spending time

in a park

on a crisp fall day.

Nothing!

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one autumnal face.

~John Donne 

Honey Badger sock pattern by Irish Girlie Knits in an STR rare gem

remains of the day

They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures

sent from a distant friendly party;

but they say nothing, 

and if we do not use the gifts they bring,

they carry them as silently away.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

patience

Can you believe it has been two weeks since my last post? OH my.

I'm not sure where the time has gone, nor do I have a good accounting of how it was all spent.

Sigh.

Socktoberfest is almost over and I have half a sock to complete by the end of the week to finish my pair of embossed leaves socks!

Until then...

Have patience with all things,

but chiefly have patience with yourself.

~St. Francis de Sales 

embossed leaves sock pattern by Mona Schmidt in an STR rare gem'

quiet progress

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

~St. Francis of Assisi 

keeping toasty

The Toasty Twist socks were finished just in time for the autumn rain.

I heart this pattern...

...quick, memorizable, and the fit is wonderful.

I believe a second pair will be on the needles in the near future.

Happy Monday! Happy Columbus Day!

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness

and travel and explore and tell the world

the glories of our journey.

~John Hope Franklin 

Toasty twist sock pattern by Teresa Fox in STR 'grandma's flower garden'

witch hazel

October is here and fall has arrived in full force.

 The air is cool, the witch hazel is turning, and the socks are flying on and off the needles at a wicked fast pace!

This STR rare gem perfectly captured the turning of the leaves from summer green to autumn blaze, and is a perfect choice to commence Socktoberfest!

The pattern is Honey Badger by IGK, one of the Q4 KAL options in the Ravelry STR group.

I love, love, love it!! I added a picot cuff...I couldn't help myself!

Happy Monday!

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.

For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

~Edwin Way Teale

Honey Badger sock pattern by Irish Girlie Knits in an STR rare gem