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!