Oh what a lovely gray, rainy afternoon!
I am on a shawl roll.
I have 22 rows and a CO to finish my own Ulmus. I knitted quite a few rows of it last Saturday while managing to knit quite by myself but in public as the day demanded:
Knitting by myself in a Pub in Lewiston, NY
Still Knitting in Public, Bridges, Georgian Bay, ON, Canada
Last Wednesday I succumbed to a yarn I kept finding in different yarn shops since just before Christmas 2007. What kept attracting me to it are all those colors. Actually I think I first saw it in a bulky version and I bought the worsted one but the colors are the same, it is Misti Alpaca Hand Painted Worsted in the colorway Neruda. From some reason I can’t find my colorway on their website, maybe they don’t sell it any more.
Thursday I couldn’t resist it and started the Shawl that Jazz and I enjoy every minute of it. All those colors on my needles really make me happy:
Aren't they pretty?
On Saturday I received the very beautiful Whisper Lace Yarn in the colorway Arabian Nights I ordered from Kim of The Woolen Rabbit, this is going to be a special gift for my sister who is going to be 60 at the end of September. I tried to take a photo of the yarn:
So Soft, So beautiful but the colors are all wrong
But couldn’t get even close to the real colors. I think the gray weather that by the way, make me quite happy, didn’t help, although my guess is that this color will be difficult to photograph even under the best conditions. It is much darker, rich and oh so beautiful and soft. This is going to be a very pleasurable project indeed.
Oh and I already know what I am going to knit next and yes, it is another shawl, the Milkweed Shawl by Laura Chau, I saw it on her when I visited Lettuce Knit last Wednesday and was so happy to see the published pattern on her blog the next day! I have this very same color of Casbah yarn waiting to become something lovely for me. When I bought this yarn I thought I will have to find a pattern to knit something that will not hide in my shoes most of the time and I think I just found it.
I wonder how long I will manage to resist starting this one too. I need to knit a pair of socks before I start this one, do you hear me Rachel?!?
I need your help.
Mary has these flowers growing in her kitchen:
Oh what a lovely velvety beauty
Their buds look like plastic to me:
What is this thing hanging quietly behind the curtain?
My sister has the same plant on her balcony in Yafo, Israel. I think she had this plant for a long time with only one miserable leaf; It didn’t want to grow and he didn’t want to die until she moved it to another place that it liked better! (or maybe this memory is of the same plant in my place in Tel Aviv, I really can’t place the memory)
Mary’s plant is hanging in the kitchen and in its search of light it went behind the curtain. An occasional bud or flower peeps at us from behind the curtain but if you go look for them you can find more buds and flowers growing happily completely hidden between the wall and the curtain:
This little beauty is completely hidden
Does anyone know the name of this plant? Joseph says he knew it but can’t remember it no matter how hard he tries. Extra points if you know the source of my header (with a tiny change).