This week has been about regrouping, getting things back in order after New Hampshire. By Tuesday evening I had the yarn inventory finished and back online. I had dyed an awful lot of yarn to take with me and hadn’t posted it to the "store". That made updating things a lot faster. The good is that it sold, the bad, that I am waiting for my yarn order. I’ll get to dyeing as soon as it arrives. As a good amount is coming from overseas, it will be a couple weeks until I get my inventory back to where I like it.
Now for knitting….
There were two different yarns that I promised myself that I would keep if they didn’t sell last week. The first one was sock yarn in the Dandelion colorway. I had dyed it with a project in mind. Sunday, I finally pulled it out of the sale basket and stashed it away in my knitting bag. I had pictured socks knit in a stockinette stitch with little flowers…dandelions.. scattered in a field of yellow. A Vermont field in the spring. It would be my first toe up sock. This was necessary to keep the flowers from standing on their heads. So far, so good. Use your imagination, I am certainly using mine.
The second yarn was my alpaca / silk lace wt. I had pictured using it for Susan’s Spring Things Shawl.
The color is a bit dark in the photo. It is a dark day but I didn’t want to wash it out with a flash.
I look out my window on this rainy day into a green cave. The leaves have filled out, the woods filled in, my vista shortened. Gone are the bones of winter.
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15 responses to “new things”
I love spring! Your new socks and shawl are lovely.
Your knitting is pure spring, too!
‘The bones of winter’… I really like that!
Both gorgeous! I particularly love the yellows and golds. My favorite colors. 🙂
I don’t know how you ever give up ANY of your yarn! It’s all so beautiful!
It’s a sea of green here too, and the weather is pleasantly mild. I think I’ll take my wheel out onto the deck when I get home!
I love your dandelion flowers on your sock! Great idea. How did I miss your sale basket in NH?
I think the flower works well!
Great idea to make a field of dandelions to sink your feet into! Very cheerful looking!
I love the way the flowers pop out of the little green stripes – very clever. Delightful!
It was great to see you last weekend! I love the colors in your Dandelion socks….bright and sunny 🙂
I love those dandelions. Very clever!
Clever! What a great idea for spring socks, and perfect colors.
Both are looking good, I really like the springlike colors of them.
It has been raining here too so everything looks green and fresh again.
I love our little dandelions! It’s agood thing yo didn’t show a picture of that sock before you sold your yarn or that skein would have sold for sure and then there would be no dandelion socks!
your dandelion sock is the prefect melding of yarn and design 🙂