Highland Walking Cape

Everything is a bit nutty — coup attempts and executive orders and raids and roundups — and I’m starting to fray at the edges, so I’m working on a new knitting design: the Highland Walking Cape. 

Knit on size 8 needles with BlueSky Fibers Woolstok Worsted in Wild Thyme.

Possiblities

The new yarn stash arrived, and there are more colors than this, but this is the likely palette for a design that is making its way through my impagination. I'm pretty tickled with it overall. If needed there's plenty of accent color available, including some lovely blackberry tones, and a burnt orange that i think would be Just Right.

 

Yarn love!

Yarn love from Michelle! With tea!

Almost all the mountain of yarn is in storage, and the Artemis Blanket is going to take quite a bit, especially with the elaborate cables that are dancing through my mind.

Work on the book looks like knitting and listening to Erica practice Bach via a live feed from Twitter, or cello music streaming into the living room. My community is digital, now, and I'm craving some analogue interaction. It's time for letter writing again.

Artemis Blanket

Section 1A is nearly complete: 4.5x60 inches.
Neither Tiu not I has can be bothered to be motivated much.  Days are knitting, tea, a walk in the cemetery, moving the lawn chair as the sun meanders through the backyard; evenings are dinner, cards or Scrabble, Netflix, looking at the growing moon. This is life, now. It seems it has always been this way.

More cables

I started a new project, a blanket with cables using Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok in October Sky. The color is just beautiful. I'm designing on the needle again, which is always a bit chaotic and magical.

I designed it in sections so that it's easier to cart about, even though none of us goes anywhere anymore. Looking forward to seeing what is revealed. Knitting is my meditation, my yoga, my sauna in this new land.

This is section 1A.
After a veritable disaster of a triple skein, Tiu is learning some manners about knitting