So many skeins to wind. Quite a fun palette going on here, not the usual.

A little more swatch sharing.

Yesterday, I started to talk about my little overdyeing project. Well, it seems little now. But there were some moments when I did question my own lack of forethought: winding 24 balls back into skeins? Is this a Good Idea?

Happy Monday everyone. Ours was the usual, "I don't have any clean socks" and "I need to print out my homework" at 8:34 am. We leave at 8:35 am.

It is beautiful out there today! Blue Blue Skies and warm. There may even be a blush of green on the lawn. Horny little gangs of squirrels everywhere. (Squirrels are still a novelty to us, so we think they're cute. But I think that will wear off. I commented on how cute they were to our realtor, and she narrowed her eyes and growled I hate squirrels à la Clint Eastwood.)

Trying out a new shawl pattern that I wrote for sport weight yarn in lace weight yarn, with a few stripes thrown in. The pale dove grey of the Americo Sedoso is a perfect complement to just about any other colour. I'm trying it out with the hand-painted Sweatermaker Yarns Fiona in a cheerful fuschia-violet blend. Sedoso is an amazing lace weight, in 60% royal alpaca 20% cashmere 20% silk. Fiona is 50% merino 50% silk (the yarn I used for the Trifle Shawl).

As I tried to wrangle several boxes of swatches into their new spots in my new office, I wondered, what to do with all this swatching? It's useful to experiment with yarn and stitches, sure, but then what? A giant swatch-work blanket? Not really my style. Scan them all in? Sooo much work.

But at the very least, I could share a few of them.

Weirdly, I don't have many suitable cardigans for this in-between weather. Literally boxes of knitting, but no perfect cardigan. My Arbois was my go-to sweater, but then I put it in the washing machine. Yes, I was conscious at the time. Yes, it is felted now.

I posted a while ago about ordering some Knit Picks Billow for a blanket, in the colour Gosling. Billow is a newish yarn, in a lovely muted palette. It would make a cosy blanket or oversized pullover. 

Snowing again. If Ottawa does indeed have Four Distinct Seasons as people keep telling me (sounds like a Tarantino-Merchant-Ivory collaboration) then this is distinctly winter. Which I'm totally fine with. But let's call a flake a flake. People are funny about their own weather. I was living in Vancouver when David Duchovny infamously complained about filming the X-Files there because of the rain, and Vancouverites were frothing at the mouth with indignation. But it does rain a lot in Vancouver. Anyways, I digress.