making

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

Embossed Leaves sock pattern by Mona Schmidt in STR 'winter solstice'

welcome winter

For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

~The Talmud  

To be Embossed Leaves by Mona Schmidt in STR 'winter solstice'

new

It's almost winter...officially; by looking out the window...it's here.

My toes feel the cold...new socks are in order!

I pulled out my stitch dictionaries...picked something that looked memorizable, textured - but not too finicky, and immediately cast-on with my new favorite cast-on.

 

I even perused the stash and pulled out this lovely Sanguine Gryphon Bugga yarn in 'tulip tree beauty'.

My toes aren't warm just yet...but soonsoonsoon!

We turn not older with years,

but newer every day.

~Emily Dickinson 

winter green

Winter is unabashedly here. The days are crisp and cold...really cold.

Fighting winter is futile. There is nothing to do but embrace it by casting on another new pair of socks!

Almondine by Anne as found here,

in Spring Garden sock yarn from The Woolen Rabbit.

I did a tubular cast-on...as found here. Tres cool method. 

Happy Friday!! Happy weekend!! xo

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

~Pietro Aretino

bliss

Knitter's math:

Becoming Art yarn in 'Sanguine Sky'  

+ Mad Color Weave sock pattern by Tina Lorin =

Bliss!

If you follow your bliss,

doors will open for you

that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

~Joseph Campbell   

trickster

I saw this color in use a short while ago on Ravelry and had to have it. I just had to!

It's STR 'ghoulash'

While on our way to the coast a few weeks ago, we stopped in Cannon Beach and checked out one of my favorite yarn stores that carries BMFA...Lo and behold...the color was there! woo hoo!

And the pattern...another pair of Intrepid Travelers...what can I say...there's a method to my madness of preferring memorizable patterns...I can travel light and paper free!

But look...the heel is different! By the time I got to the heel I had this book in my hot little hands, and knew I had to try the linen stitch heel instead of the eye of partridge that I was thinking about doing for a change of pace.

Love. It.

Oh yeh....I added a picot edge instead of the original ribbed edging, too...no surprise there, right? LOL!

Oh how this color has brightened up the days around here!

I hope you have a fabulouse weekend! xo

Kind hearts are the gardens,

Kind thoughts are the roots,

Kind words are the flowers,

Kind deeds are the fruits,

Take care of your garden

And keep out the weeds,

Fill it with sunshine

Kind words and kind deeds.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow