Curly Lilies by the Thousands

Dotted Through the rocks and roots.

Curly Lilies are here and it is a good year for Curly Lilies!  It is a great year for Curly Lilies!  Nay, it is a Stellar year for Curly Lilies!

So many blooms!

Curly Lilies, more properly known as Fawn Lilies are blooming all over the point at Piper’s Lagoon.  I have never seen such a display at Piper’s!

It takes Curly Lilies seven years to produce a bloom and this year it looks like almost every plant has produced blooms.

They grow best on the windward side of Piper’s Lagoon Point, accessed by clambering over the great rocks that separate it from the flat Lagoon side. – leaves and roots nestling between rocks and tree roots they push up their leaves and blooms in a very short period of time, always Early Spring – usually around Easter!  Once they have finished blooming they die off quickly to rest until next year.

Grey on Grey with highlights of golden-yellow!

Every year I look for them, but my timing is not always good – this year – this year – I will remember for a long time!

The Curly Lilies weren’t alone at Piper’s Lagoon.  The skies and ocean were a concert of greys and grey blues, matching the colouring of the Great Grey Heron’s in fishing on the Lagoon Side.

There were volunteer Grape Hyacinth, spreading through the beach grasses and stunted Cherry Blossom Bushes – they cannot really be called trees as their growth has been shaped and hindered by the constant winds that pummel the beach.  The Cherry Blossoms were blooming in spite of their unprotected circumstances.

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Lollypop Vest

I love working with Koigu KPPPM.  The colours are so much fun and the knitting is never boring as you watch the colours move and play off of each other.

This week one of my recent designs for Koigu was release as part of Koigu’s 25th anniversary Yarn Packs.  They are being carried by Webs – an online Yarn Store.

The Lollypop Vest is knit with the Greystone Colourway – 12 colours that shade and move along side each other for a rich palette!

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Have you Ever….

…. Started a New Project, get interrupted by other projects and just never get back to the other project!

Northern Lights Shawl

I know you have!  Well I know I have and that is just what happened to my blog!

Early last Spring I decided I wanted to update and expand my blog to create more of a website; somewhere where I could sell my patterns as well as share my pictures and thoughts.  It was time – I was running out of memory storage and needed to purchase more and a lot of things needed updating so with a lot of HELP from Ron Miskin of the Buffalo Wool Co we started to make changes!

And then life happened – to us both!

And now a year later – pretty much perfectly a year later – the new site is usable!  Out of the fog of this last year – tt still needs some work and you can expect some more changes over the next few months as we fine tune it!

Not all of my patterns are here – there are so many from the last year alone that need to be uploaded – but I will be adding all the time – as time allows!  LOL!

Spring is Finally here and Bursting with Promise!

I am still walking and taking masses of photographs!  I have missed my forum to talk about and share my experiences.

The next pattern I am going to upload is the Northern Lights Shawl.  This one is knit with Buffalo Wool Co BuffBoo, a bison, silk, bamboo blend.

Northern Lights is worked in panels, using three colours of Buffboo.  It is worked using the intarsia method of twisting the colours as they meet so that all panels are knit as a single row.  Each colour is a different lace stitch.  The colours and stitches move across the stole, and remind me of the Northern Lights as they dance across the Northern Skies.

Happy Knitting

Lynette

Random Thoughts and Minor Musing of another Knitter – compulsively addicted to the craft!

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