Planning

I ordered up a bunch of ocean-y coloured skeins from Elann recently – I’m in love with the colour blue and I like this Highland wool. I plan to use three colours to make a braided-scarf for next winter. I also got a groovy thrummed mitten kit in a Fleece Artist greeny-bluey-oceany colour that I’m totally excited about too.

In other knitterly news, I finished making the back of a wee cardigan I’m stitching for a coworker’s expected baby. So cute! Here’s a picture, but I’m doing mine in a denim-like colour.

While I know that winter is still here, as evidenced by the expected 14 degree drop we’re supposed to experience tomorrow, it just seems like Spring, and all of its possibilities, is upon us. I was out on the back deck on Saturday, peering over the railing at the tiny green shoots of new plants that have broken the surface of the soil (already!) and I want to dig out my planting flats and start some seeds so that they’ll be ready to plant at the end of May. Paul and I are also going to try some gourmet cooking experiments on our smoke grill once winter has passed and we’re saving up now to buy a screen door for our front porch! Why is a screen door so exciting? Currently, our livable space is pretty narrow, so the only north facing window we have is in the powder room at the front of the house, ergo no breeze from the front. A screen door will solve all of that.

Count 'em -- only eight days until the first of Spring!