Fair Isle February

February ends with a fair isle sock.

I am actually pleased with the result.

Talk about beginner mind... Zen mind...

well, I am hear to tell you that fair isle

sock knitting is challenging.

You have to work with two hands

and remember to catch the CC thread

every couple of stitches or you get

all those long loops... not good.

I am expanding my color choices.

Did you notice? Let's say that

I am having a flirtation with

this lovely shade of pumpkin

On to the wild Ides of March.

Monday MIttens: Color My World

I'm still enchanted with these color on color mittens.

Not an artist rendering by any stretch but

pleasing just the same.

Now the next leap is to learn to use my cell

phone photo options and then to edit the

photos on the computer.

Back to the mittens.

God give me color sense.

Do Not Disturb

You will find the Do Not Disturb room at the

Hotel Pelirocco in Brighton, England. Kate

Jacobs a local knitwear designer spent a month

and eleven pounds of yarn knitting a bedspread,

curtains, wall coverings,. The telephone,

lampshade, teapot and teacup are crocheted.

Will wonders never cease?

Any one up for a trip across the pond?

Monday Mitten # 2

Mitered Mittens... my new passion.

I have finally memorized the sequence.

These warm mittens match Ms. Tiffany's hat.

And I have a wee bit of yarn left that might

show up again in yet another mitten post.

Knit A Novel

"Some years ago, author Alice Walker was given a grant to write;

she proceeded to move out to the the country where she spent

a year knitting. As she knit, the characters in _The Color Purple_

made themselves know to her, and the force of the stories

narrative gathered like rain clouds."

* _Writing the Life Poetic_ by Sage Cohen

Page 245

Wouldn't you like to know what Alice Walker was knitting?

What would you knit?

What story would you tell?

Mitten Monday

In one of life's paradoxes my kin in New York and Connecticut

are experiencing a spring-like winter and I am bent on flooding

the market with mittens.

The pattern was written by Stephanie Pearl-Mc Phee.

Titled Cloisonee' it is a delight to knit.

Addictive... shush! Don't tell.

Happy February

The first day of a new month.

Time to admire the orchid in the garden.

And knit mittens for friends in the north.