Posted in knitting, project spectrum, summer sass on June 28, 2006| 1 Comment »
Karen’s extraordinary brain at work
Look who’s featuring a Karen Alfke design on her knitting blog today, in the very same Blue Moon “Socks That Rock” yarn spilling out of BlueGal’s new coffee mug pictured below.
Serendipitous? or far-out-cosmic-we’re-all-connected-through-blue-yarny-vibes?
Who cares? Those socks are fabulous!
(but can they play the accordion?)
Posted in home, knitting, politics, project spectrum, summer sass on June 28, 2006| 1 Comment »
Posted in home, knitting, project spectrum, summer sass on June 23, 2006| 1 Comment »
A super secret yarn project is underway at ThreadingWater. It seems a certain son is about to marry a certain lovely woman and that necessitates a certain serious handmade gift.
The bride-to-be has chosen this color palette in earthtones with an accent of pale blue. (Oops, sorry Seth – I know you thought you agreed to a pale green. It's a lovely world you live in. It's just not always the same one the rest of us experience.)
The earthy colors are Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece. This is the first time I've used this yarn and it won't be the last. It has a lovely drape and hand, and it's an amazing value since each skein is 100 grams. The blue is Rowan All Seasons Cotton – a microfiber blend that is a wee bit heavier than the Brown Sheep, and much loftier. It has something of a velvety touch and contrasts nicely with the smooth texture of the Cotton Fleece.
You can take a peek at the project, unless your names are Seth and/or Marley, in which case you must navigate away from this page immediately.
Posted in home, nature, poetry, project spectrum, summer sass on June 21, 2006| 2 Comments »
Happy summer solstice from ThreadingWater, and a nod to Project Spectrum's blue June with today's photograph of my niece's beaded slippers on the shore of Lake Michigan.
There's also a quiet and poignant poem by Dick Allen waiting for you. It made me cry – in a good way – as any magnificent poem should.
Posted in home, nature, project spectrum on June 12, 2006| 1 Comment »
Enough of green. June is blue – delphinium blue.
The current joke around threadingwater is that I look forward to Mondays in order to go back to the office and get some rest.
I woke this morning with numbness in my right hand and a barely mobile shoulder, the result of staining a new six foot high fence for four straight hours yesterday. That, in addition to the usual gardening spasms that affect me this time of year, would be the reason you're not seeing much in these posts about knitting or crocheting.
Fellow gardeners, you understand. For the rest of you, this is what makes the physical pain, the reminders that my body is aging (and not always with grace) seem ultimately inconsequential . . .
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