I’ve been knitting an insane amount lately. This is a big part of my life, who I am slowly becoming, and I love how I’m involved in it. Just now I was feverishly working a swatch for a new idea, and I looked out the window to my beloved mist pouring over the ridge from the Pacific, and remembered that I promised myself to disengage after my last pattern (Penny Candy Winter)… to calm down and enjoy what is left of Autumn, and walk in it every single day. Well, today was one of those rare days I didn’t . Up here in the California Highlands we’re getting rain, oh yes…
… and now two months into Autumn in the mountains and we’re saturated in the mist and rain and the moss is vibrant and I am happy. So happy! One month left of delicious Autumn to wander and watch the turning of the trees.
My Autumn project is to overhaul a few of my earlier patterns and so I feel at a restless in-between place presently. I’m finished with the last pattern overhaul & update of Dicey Highland Hats, and now have a pause before starting the next big thing. I’m trying to be a good person and cook a nice quiche for dinner, while doing chores, and at the same time I just want to knit ! Knit!! Knit!!! But I must force myself to stop knitting, to quiet my mind and my racing ideas, and to look around me, because I find that the creative source does need to be rested and nurtured equally as much as it needs to be exercised and developed. Answers come in the void spaces most often, let the mist into the mind to obscure the sharpness, and to let my thoughts have a good rest.
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Beautiful post! Sometimes the words all pour out in the right order. 🙂
Lizzi, hi ! I swear, everytime I worry that I shouldn’t ramble on the internet, your comment seems to save from deletion. 🙂 I mostly wanted to put some text between some nice foggy shots I took in recent couple of days. Raining cats & dogs for the moment… how are you??? xxx
🙂 I thought in your pause and reflection that you were going to say that you came up with a new color palette for your next project from your beautiful autumn scenery.
Laura (?) , you are so right… in that the greyed misty hues of things colorful are so my style. So yeah… you got it right ! 🙂
Thanks for peeking in xxx
Karin… 🙂 I’m inspired by your photos too. I’ve been collecting incredible nature photos for someday palette projects, whether it be for my paintings or for knitting projects. Love the colors in your first photo.
OH…. Karin ! Well, nice to meet you. Thanks for your compliment and your many visits… 🙂 That first photo is from the deck of our home looking out to the ridge, as the second is just zoomed in, and the last one, very near by from a walk. Muted, subdued, introverted colors for sure. 🙂
What a beautiful view!!! Love subdued and muted. 🙂
Thanks…. 🙂
So pretty!