Saturday, May 29, 2010

let a little colour in

It's been a good week, full of fun things, and it seems like everywhere I turned there was beautiful, beautiful colour...

Lily and I were cleaning up her room, and she loved my idea of sorting all her pencils by colour - she is so my daughter!  We even sharpened them all a-fresh, such a thrill


the second Black Japan installment from knitabulous arrived, and the rich cherry red hue in combination with the luxe 50/50 merino silk yarn made me squeal with delight.  The colourway is as yet unnamed, and knitabulous is offering up a skein as reward for the most inventive blogger - you should go check it out here!


and yes, some astute readers will remember that I recently de-stashed a heap of yarn because I {ahem} had too much and needed cash*??  Well,  Katie brought a pile of Wired 4 Fibre goodness to our last knitting meetup, and this skein of gorgeousness was too good to pass up!  One little skein in compared to the dozen that went out should be a good balance, shouldn't it?

I think I'll make a small bandit scarf with this one, something to really let the sumptuous colours shine.

Hope your week has been just as splendid - colourful or otherwise

* and thank you to all the lovely bloggers who bought my yarn - hope you all loved your purchases :D

oh, and thank you also to everyone who offered ideas on how to fix the bad boy bubby  bonnie wee babe cardigan.  It is now languishing in the naughty corner until I can deal with its behaviour.  but the ideas were all very useful!

6 comments:

Rose Red said...

mmm, freshly sharpened pencils all sorted by colour - excellent!

Leonie said...

Love the coloured pencils all sorted by colour, such a lovely rainbow. Katie's yarns are just so gorgeous, should get back to the shawl I'm knitting with her 50:50 wool silk...yummo!

2paw said...

I love your pencils. One of my happiest times was on Fridays when some of my class would tip out all the watercolour pencils: 216ish of them, and we would sharpen them and put them in numerical/colour order. Happy days!!
Katie's dyeing IS to die for!!

DrK said...

i love freshly sharpened pencils too, they look great in jars like that! lovely colours everywhere!

Emma said...

The pencils are lovely all sorted like that into the glass jars. Makes me want to get my Derwents out of their tin and some clean jars out of the cupboard...

Gidgetknits said...

Oh, those pencils are fantastic!!