There's a faint electric charge hovering in the air around the house right now.
After a few teaser spring-ish days the energy level has gone up yet there's still isn't really a direction for it all.
The ground is soggy, the air is chilled, and today the sky is ominously dark and cloudy.
But the buzz inside is something you can actually touch. Decisions are being made on fencing and shelters. Delivery dates have been figured and strawberry plants have been ordered.
Days are being crossed off the calendar, sometimes with a crayon, sometimes with determined calculation.
I'm having a hard time focusing even on current knitting projects. Its not that I'm not enjoying the knitting, its just that I need some fresh air and some sunshine and the smell of fresh spring soil and the sound of little spring things.
I need to wear my boots and my jeans and my leather work gloves and carry some hay bales. I need to hang sheets outside and hear them snapping in the breeze. I need to watch the kids out the kitchen window and I need to hang out on the deck with a Corona while Mac Daddy grills some burgers.
I need to get out of this house before I suffocate.
In the meantime the knitting is good. I've got a great little jacket for the kids going with a fabulous yarn. O~Wool is a pleasure to knit with and next to the skin soft. Truly, this is a wool that could change your mind about wool if you're a non-believer. The colors are rich and deep and I just can't say enough about how nicely it knits up.
I'm hoping to keep my wits about me enough to go over a few techniques in detail as they relate to this project. The best part of all... its totally and utterly seamless.
Ya know... I've been catching a lot of flack lately for not doing more adult designs. Let me take a moment just to let you know that there's more going on here than meets the eye. That's all I'm say'in.
They'll get over it. I like the stuff for the small people, personally.
Posted by: Kelly | March 06, 2008 at 06:51 PM
Sometimes I have a hard time remembering people are at different levels--I thought a lot of your patterns would easily be modifiable to adult-sizes myself.
As much as I hate the sweltering of summer...I am getting antsy to plantsy.
Posted by: Bezzie | March 05, 2008 at 11:08 AM