january gone

well, here we are on the last day of the first month of the

New Year

and what a month it has been

world wide

I mean

don't think anyone will be sorry to see this one leave

I just took some mail to the box

to find it is quite mild and dripping all over the place

but we are being warned about another storm making its way towards us

It is winter, it is winter, it is winter, it is winter

oooohhhhmmmmm

:)

Well I took the first attempt off the needles

it isn't blocked or even stretched

I sort of ran out of what to do next

it got easier to maneuver the yarn as I went

learnt how to hold it with my left hand, so now I can kinda sorta

knit continental!!!!

does this happen to you

you find something new and it takes over your whole brain

everything you look at becomes a pattern

I am surrounded by lots of different things

from lots of different places

and they each have a pattern of sorts

so I now have to put them on paper

somehow

I have looked and looked at fair isle patterns and they aren't anything very complicated

and with two colours only

anything can become an outline

plus things I see that have nothing to do with knitting

suddenly inspire

colours

shapes

texture

La Belle Helene

is going back to her roots, so to speak

and she has a picture on her blog that makes me want to buy more yarn

in the colours of her work

and "paint" with yarn and pattern

but I cannot, because I don't have the wherewith all at the moment

and

I have vowed not to buy new until I have used at least half of what I have

but I don't have pastel colours and that is what I would need

so I sit and look and drool

thanks Elaine!!!!!

xx

after I drew the pattens

I took up the needles

chose two colours

trying to be professional and using the colour wheel

and put the

"plum pudding" with the "gilded age"

basically

yer yellows and yer purples!!!!

and I'll see how far I can get with this new obsession

I did learn very quickly to do the seed stitch on the edges

no "curly whirly" on this one!!!!

so along with all the household duties

and there seem to be many this

grey and yucky morn

I will be sitting and knitting

and cheering the revolutionaries along

and hoping all of you are well

at the start of another week

:)