May Squares

I finished the May squares for my 2010 CAL/BAM Afghan immediately, but as usual forgot to post photos. The squares are coming along very well, and I think the afghan is going to be great.

Inspiration is Everywhere

You'd think that living in the desert would be drab, all beige and sand colored. But nothing could be further from the truth. Especially now in Spring, when everything is flowering and greening up.

I wrote those few sentences when I first started this post a full month ago. I was so inspired by the Spring flowers and foliage everywhere I looked.  It's now a week into May, and almost Summer. Some of the colors are not as vibrant as they first were, but I had the foresight to photograph things when they were fresh.



I've been collecting yarns in these colors:

Now to decide how to put them together (which I'm sure the yarns themselves will tell me) and what project to make with them.

At Last!

At last; the 1000 Branches Kimono (I really have to find a new, more personal name for it) is FINISHED! It was a much longer process than I had expected, what with a false start, multiple froggings, a totally reworked front band, and various other mishaps. But finally it is done, and I'm delighted with the finished product.

 Tomorrow I hope to get some pictures of me wearing it; after all, it's meant to be worn.

While working on the finishing touches (weaving in myriad ends, blocking, and sewing the side seams) I played around with writing a Haiku about the process. It was something that was brought up at the beginning of the KAL, but no one had seemed to follow up on the idea. Anyway, once I started I couldn't stop, and I kept coming up with different versions. So here are a few of them; let me know what you think:

KIMONO finished
Process excruciating
Results to be seen

KIMONO finished
The process was difficult
Results to be seen

KIMONO finished
Process excruciating
Product exquisite

KIMONO finished
Process excruciating
Product elegant

The Knitting; finished
The blocking; now being done
Tomorrow we see

Knitting is finished
the blocking is also done
photos tomorrow

KIMONO,  done at last
Difficult process to finish
desirous results 

April

It's more than halfway into April, and quite a while since I last posted. I've finally finished the knitting on my Kimono, but I still have a LOT of ends to weave in. I find that I can only work on that for a short while, and need to take a break and do something else. Since I've already finished my 2 April squares for the 2010 CAL/BAM, 

I needed something else to work on in between all that weaving. So I started  a new Feather 'n Fan project in a capelet version. It's been going very well; I really like the way it's coming along:

 

 

I'll post more photos as I progress, and hopefully, photos of a FINISHED 

1000 Branches Kimono.

2010 Block-A-Month Crochet-Along, February and March

I forgot to post pictures of the February and March squares; so here they are:

February 

and March

Now I'm just waiting for the April patterns