Cuteness

I finished a sweater this morning. Granted, it's for a very small person, but it's still a bona fide sweater.

It's a Debbie Bliss pattern knit in Rowan Wool Cotton with a few of my own modifications. Since it's for the soon-to-be-born baby boy of my chic french colleague, I took extra care to give it a special dose of je ne sais quoi. She loved it.


I had help with the finishing of course. Tortellini says, "Am I not also the embodiment of cuteness?"

Winter Wonderland

The weather outside has been rather nice the last few days, so we went for a walk on Christmas to survey the winter wonderland. Even though the warmer temperatures have dispensed with some of the 26 inches of snow we had last week, the little wetland near my house was still beautiful. Everything was quiet and still.


Having lived all of my adult life in northern states beginning with the letter M (Maine, Michigan, and Massachusetts), I've always been fond of the snow-shrouded landscape. I bought this excellent book, A Guide to Nature in Winter, by Donald Stokes back when I was a student at the University of Maine. I spent many a winter afternoon cross-country skiing behind campus, then reading the book afterward to learn more about the things I saw on the trail. I pull it out and look at it nearly every year at this time.



I also spent some time at the studio this week. I'm working on a special project for someone out there in blogland. Stay tuned for more as it develops ...

Happy Holidays!