I’m taking up the challenge posed by A Playful Day and posting to my forgotten blog.

This year as last year, the wonderful word of Serendipity has popped into my head many times.   It was serendipitous to find the wonderful podcast – A playful Day, whilst recovering from minor surgery.  From listening to Kate’s musing, I revisited the art of letter writing and connected with a fellow knitter across the ocean.  Again from the podcast, I took a leap and joined the first Muse Connection talk which inspired me to think about colour and how it makes me feel.  Thinking about colour has reawakened my love of gardening and my front garden has benefitted from a redesign and lots of new planting.

One podcast inevitably led to another and I found the Pom Pom Quarterly which makes me very happy when listening. There is joy and happiness in the voices of the presenters which is infectious.  Reading many of the blogs featured this week, got me … finally to get onto pinterest

All of the above has kickstarted me to make sure I widen my community and soak up the happy vibes from so many creative thinkers.   And to finish, one of my most favourite colours and flowers and one which needs planting!

Red as the field of poppies, when I saw this fab yarn I knew I had to have it. Posh Betsy DK is such a lovely yarn to knit with, it slides through your fingers. 

I slightly adapted Thea Colman’s Cape Cod and did three quarter sleeves instead of full.   

My lovely son is very clever – five minute and he came up with this.  I love the way he has placed the characters in this picture.

Well everyone needs a pair or two.  I am still cursing the day I walked away from the most beautiful Ruby Slippers I have ever seen.  I have searched high and low for a pair of these shoes seen and tried on in Russell and Bromley of all places.

Still I now have a pair of something even better – Ruby Slipper socks.

Comfy and for wearing around the house when I get home from work and I am home.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. 

Beccs is a fabulous pattern http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/beccs by Isabell Kramer.  Lovely easy knit with a cable running down the front, no fastenings.   I knitted this for my mother in law who needs a bit of blue skies at the moment.  

We must all follow our own Yellow Brick Road and I am definitely going to try this year to follow my heart and do the things that make me and my family happy.

This lovely cowl – Millwater by Beth Kling http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/millwater does just that.  The pattern is very simple and easy to follow.  I used Posh Martha Aran, a truly lovely squashy yarn and fab to knit with.  The colour is really sunny and joyous and I can’t to wait to wear it tomorrow to brighten up my Monday blues.

 

 

 

The wool came from Artifibers from San Francisco, sadly now closed.  The mix of the yarn is mohair and silk and the weight makes it sit nicely on my shoulders.  A lovely shawl which I wear a lot.

“Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliance of the wonderful city.”

And I’m back after much too long away.  I found my knitting mojo this holiday and am determined to start blogging again.  This is the year of Serendipity – fortunate happenstance.  Lucky my darling husband knows how to retrieve lost passwords etc. etc.