February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like. Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie
Friday’s in February will focus on finding things to love about a month that for me is an “in-between month” – it’s not quite spring and not quite winter, although those deliciously mild temps have given way to a full-on blast of winter here in the ‘Bergh, but despite that, my thoughts turned to spring! Funny how a few mild days does that, right?
I am really loving Marie Yovanovitch this week who shared these inspiring words: “It has been shocking to experience the storm of criticism, lies and malicious conspiracies that have preceded and followed my public testimony, but I have no regrets. I did — we did — what our conscience called us to do. We did what the gift of U.S. citizenship requires us to do.” Ambassador Yovanovitch provides the light of hope in the most beautiful way, and after this week I really needed that light!
I have recently felt the urge to declutter and clean out things. This led me to haul out some knitting bags that are filled with languishing projects. Most I have frogged, but one little gem was found in the midst of all the “what was I thinking” projects. My inspiration comes from Gale and her gorgeous take on KK’s Cladonia. Renewed love for a languishing project is a very good thing! I have a little bit of knitty math to do to figure out how big I want it, but I have a new “old project” that is calling my name!
There was lots of knitting temptations to love this week – in case you need a new project to love:
- First, Jacqueline Cieslak’s Water Bearer is stunning! I love the movement and the cropped length!
- Lori Versaci’s Sequences Shrug is another genius design.
- Romi delivered two stunning shawls this week, Sand Harbor and Lake Mist
- Finally, the Spring edition of PomPom Quarterly is not one to miss! Ten patterns and I love every one of them! (And, Romi has a gorgeous sweater that would be perfect for spring/summer layering!)
Finally, one of the best things this week was the love of friends. From messages from friends I have never personally met, a FaceTime call that brightened my week, to the most wonderful surprise that came via snail mail. I want to take a moment to tell all of you how much I love this community here at AsKatKnits, and how much I appreciate each of you. You make the world an infinitely kinder, lovelier place and my world is richer because of you! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!
Happy Friday and my wish for you all is that you weekend is one of long slow days! See you back here next week!
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The colors in your recently found Cladonia are wonderful! I’m glad it escaped frogging and hope you and math will produce a stunning shawl.
Ryan has “imaginary friends” all over the world from playing video games, and I was recently explaining that my “imaginary friends” were all connected by knitting. My world is a better place because of you, Kat, and I thank you!
What a great Friday idea! Have a great weekend.
Happy Friday and Happy February! I had forgotten all about Cladonia! And your colors for it are simply stunning. Can’t wait to see that take shape. Have a wonderful weekend. And I agree that my knitty bloggy friends certainly make my world more pleasant – merci:)
Cladonia looks like a grand knit! Glad she was rescued from the UFO pile. Don’t we all have a UFO pile and I get excited when I find some of those oldies to finish.
Kat, I have been really enjoying this community you have gathered around knitting. Enjoy reading the posts and all the comments, thank you! I know this can be and is time consuming. You bring joy into my knitting life.
Your tweedy Cladonia is going to be so lovely, and I’m glad you’ve rekindled your love for this project!
This snowy Friday feels very much like winter, but you’re right that now is when we start getting the first signs of spring. I’m enjoying the beauty of the snow as well as the excited twittering of the birds in the morning and the increased light at the end of the day.
Happy weekend!
What a fun theme for February! I love your Cladonia and can’t wait to follow your progress! And I love these weekly roundups of knitting patterns ❤
Thanks for sharing that Marie Yovanovitch quote. I was also moved by LTC Vindman’s lawyer’s response to his firing yesterday. People in power are indeed frightened of his patriotism and sense of doing what’s right! I’m so nervous about the election in November – it feels like even MORE is at stake than in 2016.
xoxo! I love this idea for Fridays … especially after a week like this one. Your Cladonia is so pretty! (2016, huh? … wow, that feels like decades ago.) Do you still have any plutulopi left? A friend shared this pattern with me yesterday to use up mine https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/aito-2
Cladonia is going to be great and go you on recognizing that some projects just need to be frogged. Love you, lady.
Romi’s shawls look so divine! Yea you for de-cluttering you never know what you’ll find.
Cladonia looks like it will be very pretty. Now and then it is good to reorganize the knitting projects. The former Ambassador’s quote is a ray of hope. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wrote a great piece about Romney. I loved the last paragraph which began, “On Wednesday, Romney lit a single candle.” I am carrying that thought with me as another ray of hope.