A hydrangea cutting from last year decided to make Spring even more exciting by creating its first ever flower when nothing else bloomed in the garden. Brought indoors its single blossom came to be appreciated and admired all day long for weeks and weeks.
Thanks to its beautiful influence this Spring I was drawn to chalky shades and especially to new-growth vibrant greens and pale pinks.
Noro of Japan create beautiful yarn and colours. I found some Noro Shiro that captured all of these harmonious shades of Spring; new, outrageously limey and zesty greens and pale, sorbet pinks flowing through old greens and browns of winter.
“Spring does not turn into summer.
Spring is its own time.”
Adding to the joy of finding it, {it’s a discontinued shade} Noro Shiro is 40% soft nature wool, 30% cashmere and 30% silk. A joy to knit with, and to wear.
So this Spring I knitted several INNER WILD pieces using this yarn with a feeling of flowing with the universe: the Zenko Apron and Zenko Strappy Top {sold on Etsy} and Arum Lily Bodice and Arum Lily Gauntlets.
Here they are, first the Zenko – look at that shading! {I did manipulate the balls of yarn to make more obvious the shading of dark to light}:
When you grow up in the Hebrides among your tough Harris Tweed-clad menfolk and the smell of wet tweed and feel of rough wool is as familiar to you as your own skin you have permission to mess with it. The ancient coming together of our island sheep wool in woven and knitted form is …
Short days, wild winds, stormy seas. The glory of winter darkness hibernation, wrapping ourselves in cosy woollens, swaddling our spirits in the gestation time, quietening our minds, listening with stillness to the sounds of nature. Here we are in the deep mid-Winter with arrows pointing back to Autumn and forwards to Spring in the eternal …
As we are all part of nature we feel the quickening in early Spring, a tingling of life force awakening inside us, a desire to rampage into newness. I wonder if like the sap in plant stems that is suddenly rising and full of vigour, we too have this response in our bodies. All things …
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Spring: blossom inspiration
A hydrangea cutting from last year decided to make Spring even more exciting by creating its first ever flower when nothing else bloomed in the garden. Brought indoors its single blossom came to be appreciated and admired all day long for weeks and weeks.
Thanks to its beautiful influence this Spring I was drawn to chalky shades and especially to new-growth vibrant greens and pale pinks.
Noro of Japan create beautiful yarn and colours. I found some Noro Shiro that captured all of these harmonious shades of Spring; new, outrageously limey and zesty greens and pale, sorbet pinks flowing through old greens and browns of winter.
Adding to the joy of finding it, {it’s a discontinued shade} Noro Shiro is 40% soft nature wool, 30% cashmere and 30% silk. A joy to knit with, and to wear.
So this Spring I knitted several INNER WILD pieces using this yarn with a feeling of flowing with the universe: the Zenko Apron and Zenko Strappy Top {sold on Etsy} and Arum Lily Bodice and Arum Lily Gauntlets.
Here they are, first the Zenko – look at that shading! {I did manipulate the balls of yarn to make more obvious the shading of dark to light}:
… and Arum Lily:
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