The Autumnal equinox is approaching in a week, and it is my absolute favorite time of year. When October comes along with the marine fog pouring over the ridge I always feel so cheerful. And when the first soft rains wash the dust off of the parchment dry landscape, it comes back to life, and then I feel ecstatic. Like a cougar ready to pounce I am anticipating earnest work ahead on the woodland knitting trail that I have been contemplating well over a year. Autumn is my happiest time, and my most hard-laboring time.
Just that I will spend the next week, the end of summer, first finishing this…
(Not the cup of tea, but the sweater ) 😉 I am making good progress on the Autumn sweaters for my nieces, with the first one finished and the second more than half way done. Soon I’ll be at the yoke joining sleeves to body, then it’s usually done pretty fast from there.
I am pretty well certain that I will be finished with both of the sweaters by the equinox, which is one week from today… and the photo shoot with nieces wearing them is scheduled for the first weekend in October ~~ so my fingers are crossed, and I’m so excited ! For this last week of summer I knit while the sounds of grape harvest surround us on the mountain , rattling gondolas towed behind tractors on the rugged dirt roads and chatter of jovial pickers are heard in the breeze.
What is happening with you this bittersweet end of summer ?
Love the lace and colors…..Love those trees. I’ve been gathering some of the peeling bark off them thinking they look like old parchment paper..so trying to write on them with a fountain pen….I put some into water to soak to flatten them and bit and getting a lovely red shade in that water…I bet they would make an interesting dyestuff.
Thank you Morrie ! Hey, the collecting of bark for dye stuff sounds like a great project ! So you to write on them… Messages perhaps, and glue them all over the place ? 🙂
Like chalk boards! 😉
Pretty jumper. That bench looks like a lovely place to sit and knit 🙂
Thank you Sally. The bench is quite wobbly actually…lol. But that is where the knitting trail will head northerly from the front walk. 🙂 xx