Petunia rambles on and on….

I don’t like gray, overcast or rainy days. I usually have a list of chores to do and hate running about in the rain, or driving in it.  But sometimes, I like stormy skies.

I took this from inside my car, just leaving work and waiting for the engine to warm. I barely made it home before it started to rain.

One of the knitting projects that I’ve enjoyed doing is Entrelac scarves with Noro, a yarn with long color repeats.  “Back in the day,” we used ombre type yarns that seemed to change color about every 4-6 stitches. These newer yarns will give you rows of the same color and then gradually blend into the next one. Makes for some interesting patterning.

This one is Entrelac Scarf by Allison LoCicero. I’ve made it before, several times. Love to watch the colors play through my hands.  This one needs to be blocked but you get the idea.

I made the first one a while back, after visiting an LYS near where my daughter lives in southern Maryland, and saw there a beautiful shawl done in this technique.  It was a work of art, and it started my wheels turning.  At about the same time, I think a Cast On magazine (I might be wrong on that) illustrated and explained the technique of “knitting backwards.” As I’m a damn fine purler and would never substitute this technique for purling the back on stocking stitch, I probably didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the article when I first received it. So I had to go on a great hunt to find the issue – for these little 8-stitch “panels,” it’s certainly worth the time it took to become comfortable doing it.  Without it, I would have spent more time turning and rearranging my work than knitting on it! Maybe it came easier to me because I’m a Continental knitter.

And I’m a leftie, too!

On Wednesday night, I spent the evening with my friend Maria, before she leaves for quite a few weeks. Much has been going on in her life, much in mine, and sharing with a friend seems to double the good parts and halve the not-so-good. Oh, how we laughed together – and I will miss her when she’s gone off on her visit home.

Maria is a seamstress extraordinaire and will do the honors on a dress recently picked out to wear to a wedding.  It will certainly fit better when she is done with it.

Trees are turning colors and soon will be bare.  The colors are pretty but they herald the miseries of winter – and I don’t even want to think about it, especially as my best friend just moved back to Florida, very nearby the area where we grew up together.

As pretty as they may be, still think I’d rather be sitting under a palm tree with a rum drink in hand, than up here trying to drive to work through snow and ice.