Natural Inspiration

The weather has been so beautiful lately and I've been taking snap shots around the neighborhood. When I drew and painted, the pictures were reference materials. Now that I knit, I've been trying to find ways to incorporate Nature and the environment into my knitting. I suppose, my stumbling block has been my literalness. (For instance, I've just about given up the idea of knitting with branches, but not quite.)

Well, the bittersweet moment arrived--a co-worker gave her two-week notice and announced that she was moving back to the Midwest--and I finally heard the Muse, who had been screaming at me for months to do something with my cloud pictures. I had been looking at the photos and had even e-mailed them to friends. So here is the result: the Cloudy Blue Scarf. I knitted it with one skein of Patons Divine (Denim Storm, no less!) in a simple lace pattern: P1, yo, p2tog.

My friend and I will always be under the same blue sky and my scarf will keep her warm should it be a stormy day.

Never satisfied, the muse urges me to keep experimenting. Perhaps, something less representational next time.

Perhaps, not....