we spent a quiet day around the apartment . . and actually did some work on grammar together.
i wanted to get a few pictures of their scarves. they're very warm and soft!
morgana says it's perfect to tuck into her coat.
by day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference-orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple. but the core of blue persists, and so it is by night. then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault. the distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue. -e.m. forster (a passage to india)


for two years this yarn has sat in the bottom drawer of my dresser waiting for me to knit it into scarves for the girls (tempting korrina who has often rummaged through my drawer looking for a pair of tights to "borrow.") i finally pulled it out about a month ago, and i've had the most difficult time deciding how to pair the colors. i originally picked out these different skeins of knitpick's dancing, twist, and butterfly kisses to make their "stockpot scarf." (i can no longer find this pattern on the website.) i would still like to knit from the paper copy i have, but the colors i picked no longer seem to work. finally, after consulting with my friend janet, and the girls themselves, i have a plan. i'm pairing a skein of bronze butterfly kisses, with the cotton crayon yarn and a "spumoni" twist yarn (the brown crayon looks a bit purplish in the above picture). i just needed to order two extra brown crayon skeins (which, fortunately, they still carry).