What a Wild Week in a Wintery Wonderland

I have had a really wild week.

It is has been freezing, snowing and my hands have really struggled with the activities we have carried out out in that cold wintery environment.

On Wednesday I was interviewed by Leandra and her team on Amsterdam English Breakfast Radio. That was a great experience, and the radio interview is also on video. (Radio with pictures - was a New Zealand TV programme many years ago).

We then tested a ball for size in a freezing Maastricht, and followed that with the ball dress rehearsal in Haarlem. Both of those freezing activities are on video. We are amateurs for sure, the commentary is bizarre - that is I didn't realise it was recording the activity, let alone what we were saying. We will change it when we work out how. But in one wild wintery week I have been on video in three separate cities.

I do have to get away from these balls. My black formal ball warmer is progressing well - and I keep seeing ideas in my head for new ball pieces. So I am not creating ball warmers anymore, that is until the next time

I am creating an intarsia piece with hairy "carbon footprint" design. This may well be my only ever graphed intarsia piece. I just don't knit pictures.

I am a free form flowing kind of knitter, I just don't like graphs. I know I can do it - but when I am surrounded by many yarns and many colours of yarns I really just want to play. So I am going to work through the list below until I can play some more.

     1.  Knit Carbon Footprint in intarsia

     2.  Complete Carbon Footprint - shadow knitting version

     3.  Knit 2 berets for a very dear friend - I have the yarns and I am playing with them - sorting, changing the colour order, thinking about what other colour or yarn type I could add.

then

colour

colour play

and then colour play some more

that is the plan