Each day of this year so far I
have been adding 2 rows of garter stitch to my “Knit the Sky” scarf.
It is a bit grey at the moment
but there have been a couple of brighter days.
I am trying to record the colour of the sky around the time I have my
lunch (whenever that is). Today I think
It will be off-white. The test for this
project will come next week when I am travelling around a lot – will I forget
to notice the sky?
Last Saturday I managed to get to
Oxford. I wanted to take some yarn,
needles etc to Oxford Yarn Store. They
are collecting yarn to be sent to Northern Greece for the refugees to use. I remembered that I had read an article in
which Horst Schulz said that he had learned to knit in a refugee camp and how
good it was to have something to do and a way of making money – by knitting
things to sell or swop for essentials.
When I entered Oxford Yarn Store
heavily laden with bags – I said – I want to leave with less wool than I
arrived with! I did buy some more yarn –
but I was applying the Sally Melville principle of how to use up your stash –
you buy a main colour to bring odd balls together. So I bought 5 skeins of Rowan Fine Art Aran which
were in the Sale.
It is a dark purple shade –
although I know it looks black in the photo.
I wanted something dark as a background colour to make the bright
colours of Noro Kureyon stand out. I
have a project in mind and would like to start it but I think I ought to finish
a few more things first!
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