My pretty Rose Red beret, knit from an I-cord center from the top down. Ysolda’s pattern. Beautiful design! The yarn is hand-dyed merino from Gypsy Wools in Boulder. The kitty is my beloved Gabriel.
Author Archives: Jonna
Selbu Modern
I’ve finally completed a colorwork pattern that actually works. Behold, the very lovely Selbu Modern beret: I knitted this while in New Mexico visiting relatives. The straw-and-cornflower color scheme turned out very nicely, I think. If I make another one for myself, I’ll choose jewel tones or charcoal, as I usually do. Perhaps purple. I […]
Ishbel, Part 1
Lately, I’ve been entranced by Ishbel, Ysolda’s lovely and popular shawl pattern. My own efforts to make an Ishbel shawl started out pretty well, but ended in knitting disaster. Snowy and Mithril helped me choose a gorgeous Malabrigo sock yarn in the Violeta Africana colorway, and I knitted happily away while vacationing in Hawaii. [Malabrigo yarn! […]
Spring Color
From my Wisconsin garden.
Orange
More color, more light.
Green
At home in Wisconsin, my living room is the color of a fresh Key Lime pie. I guess you could say I really like green. Especially in the wintertime. Now it’s that time of year again. Green time: bright chartreuse against the gray. For months, we’ve been waiting for it.
Flood waters
I went up to Fargo at Easter, and the flood waters were still high. But the crisis had just passed, leaving the entire city strangely static, as if it were a surreal, abandoned version of Venice. In North Dakota.
Christmas Fox
On Christmas morning, a fox came into our yard. It circled under the apricot tree… …then settled down to rest.
