blue and green, my comfort colors

I thought I'd post a little about the spinning and knitting I've been doing lately. 


Finally, my spinning mojo is back.  I wasn't enjoying the alpaca blends I was working on (although they might entice me some other time), but I'm loving me this Finn from Color Craze Fiber.

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Blues and greens together are so soothing. This is a cowl I dreamed up, using "Imagination" yarn from Knit Picks in the Frog Prince colorway.

And these are the latest socks, in Zen Yarn Garden's "China Urn" colorway, based on a painting by Pierre Redoute. (I'm proud to tell you that I chose that month's colorway!) As always, the sock pattern was top-down vanilla. The green is subtle, but definitely there, working its magic.

I would like to thank my enabler, with photos

Darkside Cowl by Saray Fama
Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Grey Heather, size 7 needle.

This is my first cowl. I'm in love. It's soft, warm, pretty, and soft. And warm. I see many cowls in my future.

My enabler? Penny the Penguin Girl. She's made many, many beautiful cowls. Where she leads, I shall follow.


Penny and Kata conspired to make me happy last month by sending me a box of lovelies including a new raspberry Lamy Al-star fountain pen, with turquoise cartridges, tea, and ...

... Teabird's family crest, which Kata carved for me.

And this? Oh, just because.