So far, my sanity has been preserved by distractions from work. Jason has been fabulous and we recently had a visit from the Vissers, which was a nice mental break. But still, one needs a daily relaxing ritual to soothe the soul... for me this took the form of simple knitting.... nothing too fancy, straight, plain, oatmeal-in-a-plain-bowl-type knitting, and for some reason my brain decided we needed some exciting colour in there to counted the pages and pages of text and PhD results.
And so.... over the last month or so I have produced two very large shawls that I think are lovely... and huge.... and colourful... but really, apart from the whole rainbow thing... quite plain. No lace, no sewing, no buttons, just straight knit and purl. And they are delicious!
The first I call my Swaley Cross Stratification Shawl (NERD!). The genius of this is a lovely pattern by Veera Välimäki called Color Affection, and in my braindeadness, I followed the pattern (almost) word for word.
The second I call Stained Glass and is based off of the lovely Daybreak shawl by Stephen West. I made this using some awesome rainbow mini-skeins from Thee Irish Girls, a great group of Indie Dyers and designers!
And now for something completely different....
Well ok, it's still crazy colourful but at least it's socks instead of another shawl!
P.S. Photos are from my great new Nikon AW100 which I love! So far this little guy is amazing!
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