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Raindrops

Top two shelves organized and all lit up!
Top two shelves organized and all lit up!
Budding out
Budding out

Last weekend I started the annual “I am going to try to keep things tidier routine”.

This year I started with the purchase of a new (to me) glass cabinet for my favourite dust catchers – the bone China Florals.  My collection is growing in leaps and bounds!  This is fun!

The cabinet sits in the corner beside my knitting chair and I will be able to look at the flowers all year long!

I have two rooms left to vacuum and dust and then my Spring cleaning efforts will be done until next year!

Gloriously bedazzled Camellia.  Crystalline raindrops festooning every petal!
Gloriously bedazzled Camellia. Crystalline raindrops festooning every petal!

The Camellia bush in the front yard is just starting to bloom. The mild Winter and early Spring has brought the blooms on early!

It has been raining pretty steadily here for the last day or so.   Beautiful,blooms accented with crystal raindrops has been the result!

Camellia blooms really do not care for the rain – they will quickly turn brown and fall off the bush, but right now they are glorious!

2 skeins of beautiful rose and silver!
2 skeins of beautiful rose and silver!

There is more pink in the house right now – some new yarn from The Buffalo Wool Co..

The amazing Shimmering Sexy DK in a deep rose.  I am itching to start working with it, but…..

…..I MUST FINISH RHIANNON!

Only 2 squares left, plus the edging and tassels!  I am feeling like it is now only a small matter of time!  (Despite the evening’s major mistake – 2 hours of knitting needs to be taken back!)

 

rhiannons cloak

 

I hope that you have had a great evening!  I certainly hope that it was more productive than mine!

Happy Knitting

Lynette

Spring in my Hands

Spring in my Hands
Spring in my Hands

An Ode to Hand-dyed Yarns

Sea Three colours beckon!
Sea Three colours beckon!

We have been receiving boxes and boxes of hand-dyed yarns in the last week.  Handmaiden, Mountain Colors, and Madelinetosh are the most exciting boxes to open and unpack as there are always must have colours and skeins of yarn.  Opening these boxes is like finding a door to Spring and Summer.  The colours are incredible.  These colours are the best antidote to the grey days of Winter.

Lace Silk has a Siren's Call!
Lace Silk has a Siren’s Call!

On Monday there was a box from Handmaiden; it was full of Casbah, Maidenhair, Lace Silk, Sea Three, I-Silk and Mulberry Tussah!  Exotic names for incredible yarns.  Silk, Kid Mohair, SeaCell, a little Cashmere and Wool all Fibres combined in different ways and all singing out in colour.

Bearfoot never languishes!
Bearfoot never languishes!

On Tuesday there was a box from Mountain Colours.  It contained Bearfoot – my favorite sock yarn.  Mountain Colours yarns are known for their deep, rich colourways and this box was jammed with options!

Yesterday there was a box from Madelinetosh.  It is full of their new Worsted.  Tosh Merino Worsted – a single ply intensely soft and wonderfully squishy!  All dyed in Madelinetoshs’ unique glazed dying.  No other dye company does it quite the same.  There is another box to go with this one – it isn’t here yet, but it holds the Madelinetosh Lace Silk – this is new to the store.  And how I want some – sight unseen!

Can a picture evoke soft and squishy?!
Can a picture evoke soft and squishy?!

I have never experienced the Winter Blues!  Perhaps this is because every time I open a box I get to hold Spring in my Hands!

Mulberry and Tussah are reaching out!
Mulberry and Tussah are reaching out!

In the Handmaiden box there was this one hank of Casbah – it instantly made me think of Spring Gardens, tulips and daffodils.  It came home.  There will be other hanks that call, are already calling!  But this one was irresistible and it came home immediately!

Need a piece of Spring – pull out your Stash and fondle some yarn!

Happy Drooling!

Lynette