Many thanks to Ginny for hosting the Yarn Along every week.  Each week I find new patterns to add to my queue and new books to order from the library thanks to all the men and women who participate.
I’m just about done test-knitting the first three sizes of a baby/toddler vest pattern I am working up. If you might be interested in test-knitting a 2T or 3T for me, please let me know and I’ll e-mail you the pattern.  I hope to have the three smaller sizes of the pattern up on Ravelry in a week, since all the kinks seemed to be worked out.
The yarn is vintage Bernat (1960s?) picked up at the thrift store for 25 cents/skein. It is 90 percent virgin wool and 10% mohair, with a fluffy halo and plenty of loft. Really enjoying knitting with it. (The other sizes are in Cascade 220 and Lamb’s Pride Worsted, from my stash).
Each morning and evening, little by little, I’m continuing to work through the Benedictine book, The Divine Hours.
Sowing Seeds in the Desert, by the thinker-turned-farmer, Masanobu Fukuoka, just came from the library. I find Fukuoka’s idealism almost intoxicating – he dreams of restoration, and works for a verdant earth in which people are in perfect communion with each other and the ecosystem. His writing is full of unquenchable hope, and it is quite uplifting.
We must realize that both in the past and today, there is only one “sustainable” course available to us. We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert – that is the path society must follow. – Masaonobu Fukuoka
Sweet vest, love the stripes.
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Thanks, Natalie!
I love your photograph with your tea, knitting, and books all together! And I also love that you’re working on a pattern – that’s my dream! 🙂 Your vest is lovely.
Thank you, Tess!
I love that quote from Fukuoka. Revitalizing the Earth! so important. Great find with that yarn. You can be really lucky sometimes. Love the stripes.
Vest looking very cute, I love stripes, and that yarn sounds wonderful and such a bargain.
I like the sound of both your books, unfortunately we don’t have an english language library here so I have to buy most of my books new. I think these two will be going on my wish list.
Cute vest and what a great score on the yarn!
The way you describe that yarn…it sounds so decadent! I’m loving those stripes on that little vest. And thanks for the book rec!
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