Hello and happy long weekend, if you're reading from NZ. Hope this finds you well and keeping warm in early winter (or summer...)
The last few days have been fairly quiet ones here, and the sky has been grey as grey. I've finished a bit of embroidery - a garden-inspired project bag for a customer and will post it off to the other side of the world shortly.
Last night I watched the film Yarn, which is currently on NZ Netflix. Have you seen it? It's about crochet and knitting artists from various countries, and has a voiceover by writer Barbara Kingsolver. The film explores the role of yarn and thread in a Danish circus, knit graffiti in Iceland and Cuba, environmental protest art and even crocheted play equipment for public spaces.
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I bought the latest Laine magazine, which is a knitting publication from Finland. I ordered it through Holland Road here in Wellington, and it was a big treat to find it in the letterbox when I got home from work on Friday.
I would make every single pattern in there, but there is one project that I especially long to knit - it's a top called 'Birkin' and has a botanical fair isle pattern circling the yoke. I think it is so beautiful! But I am a seriously slow knitter and I'm not sure i could achieve it (it's knitted in 4 ply Brooklyn Tweed yarn). It's currently number one on my making-dream-list. Do you have a list of top dream-makes, too, and if so, what's on it?
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This week has brought with it such terrible news from the UK, the USA and elsewhere in the world, and my heart goes out to everyone affected.
Honestly, it makes me think that perhaps this blog is too trivial and insensitive to bother with. To write about knitting and gardening, and weather and moods. I hope you too can find some comfort in the small things, the quiet moments of joy in your life right now.
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