Bluebonnets and Blue Sox

 

The best thing besides delightful weather in the Texas springtime is bluebonnets.  Thanks to Lady Bird, the major highways are seeded along their sides with bluebonnets and other wild flowers by the state of Texas.  Bluebonnets have become a rite of passage -- every child is photographed while sitting in a patch of vivid blue blooms.  At this time of year, parents dress up the kids and can be seen along the major roads, cameras in hand.  My kids have long since grown up, but you are welcome to be a pseudo-Texan for a few moments . . . along the interstate, up close, and almost intimately. 

If someone could only make a yarn in this sinfully delicious shade of blue, I would happily buy it.

The bluebonnets will begin to fade away after 4-6 weeks, just as the Mexican Hats and Indian Paintbrush start to peep through the grass.  Then the highways change from vivid blue to bright yellow and red.

Well, I can't have bluebonnet blue for my Wollmeise socks by Monica Jines, but they are a pretty blue to be sure.  They are finally finished and ready to show off.  Yarn is courtesy of Wullenstudio.

And a closeup of the pattern detail. 

Fourth time is charm?

I was down through the heel and tried on my latest effort at socks, and they were too small.  Frog it again.  I have fussed and struggled over the pattern for these socks, even changing to a simpler pattern (Wollmeise) designed by Monica Jines, but still find myself doing something wrong.  Hopefully, this time will be a good fit with a pretty pattern.  The color of this hand-died yarn is scrumptious which is, I suppose, a reason that I am being so picky about the output.   It is colorway Kokomo, from Wullenstudio, superwash merino. 

I have treated myself to a new pair of Kollage Square dpns.  I am so sold on them that I have another pair on order in a different size.  Currently, I am working with the size #1 pair while I await the arrival of the size #2.  The LYS is having a hard time keeping them on hand!  These are advertized as easy on the hands, but that is not why I bought them.  They last because they are steel, and the yarn moves so nicely across them, but without danger of the needles falling out.  In addition, they are very light weight.  Goodbye, bamboo.

Another new thing -- I have changed the title on my blog to YARN SCRAPS.   I think it is a more appropriate description:  scraps of my mind and life tied together with scraps of yarn.