Hello! While I was puzzling over the shoulder problem I wrote about last week, I knit a simple pair of socks for my sister-in-law. The stretchy k2/p2 ribbing will fit snug around her narrow feet. Here they are on my wider feet:
Not the most exciting pair of socks ever, but I thought you might be interested in the yarn – Austermann Step 4 (Irish Rainbow, shade 228). It looks and knits up like a fairly run-of-the-mill 4-ply superwash sock yarn. Only, for its superwash treatment the more sustainable EXP-process was used. Avoiding the use of chlorine and other harmful chemicals, and using far less water, the EXP-process has the GOTS-certificate and several other certificates for sustainable textiles. Though I do have my slip-ups, I try to be a responsible consumer.
Starting the second sock at exactly the right spot in the stripe sequence to get a matching pair is a game I like to play with self-striping yarns. Yay, I won!
After taking pictures of the socks, I spent some time playing in the garden. Being a responsible adult is all well and good, but the inner child also needs time to play and explore. My hands may be getting spotty and wrinkly, I still get excited about the empty shell of a blackbird’s egg.
And I still collect bugs, only not in a jam jar but with my camera.
In our white lilac bush, my gossamer swatch for a pink Polka Dot Scarf looks like a fairy’s laundry.
As a young teenager just starting to learn English, I collected the flower fairy booklets by Cicely Mary Barker. I still have them and early on Sunday morning I spent a delightful quiet hour looking at their lovely pictures and reading some of the poems.
In Flower Fairies of the Trees there is a poem about the lilac that ends like this:
“I love her so much
That I never can tell
If she’s sweeter to look at,
Or sweeter to smell.”
And under the C in A Flower Fairy Alphabet, I came across the columbine (known to me as aquilegia).
These flowers like fairy skirts are dancing in our front garden in many shades of pink and purple.
The sweater-with-the-now-solved-shoulder-problem is almost finished, and thinking about new projects I knit a couple of swatches with a yarn I’m considering for a Norwegian sweater – CaMaRose’s Økologisk Hverdagsuld (Organic Everyday Wool). While I was photographing them, my inner child played with pebbles.
I hope that you, too, can find some time in your days for your inner child to play (and/or take a nap). xxx
Great pictures, but the one of the lady bug really stands out.
Ah, yes, that was on a lovely sunshiny day, with the ladybug on the rosemary bush.
Met een glimlach op mijn gezicht je stukje gelezen.
Fijn om te horen. 🙂