Hello! Last week, one of the owners of a flower shop in a nearby town was busy decorating their shop with snowy artificial Christmas trees when I popped in. He was probably late compared to the big garden centres, but for me far too early. Let’s please enjoy autumn first. I was at the flower shop to buy some tiny ornamental gourds for an autumn bowl for our table and also one to give away. The rest, I found in our garden and around the village.
One of my best friends celebrates her birthday in October. We’ve been friends for about 50 years. Or now that I come to think of it, maybe exactly 50 years this autumn. Should we be celebrating our Golden Friendship Anniversary? Well, anyway, I’ve knit her a scarf for a birthday present, using five shades of Drops Kid-Silk – Moonlight, Ash Grey, Ruby Wine, Mauve, and Pink Pearl, a lovely pale pinkish-beigeish shade.
The pattern I’ve used is the Color Play Mohair Scarf from the Churchmouse design team. It’s a very simple pattern that also has instructions for a larger wrap version. The pattern uses only four colours for the scarf – I’ve added a fifth for a little more length.
The scarf is knit holding two colours together in varying combinations, resulting in a marled fabric. It’s a project that’s hard to put down, because you can’t wait to see how the next colour combo will look knit up together.
The colours are not exactly autumnal…
… they’d have to be brighter for that…
… and more brown, bright red and orange (one soggy and ragged fly agaric looked just like a little sunflower)…
… but I think they’ll look good on her and I hope she’ll enjoy wearing the scarf.
Well, that’s all for today. The computer shop rang me with happy news that my new computer has arrived (they seem to be like gold dust these days) and I hope to have it up and running in time to write next week’s post. Hope to see you again then. Meanwhile, take care!
Enjoy the season!