The Colours Got Me

A podcaster was knitting with Sophie's Toe yarn (Emily Parson @emilyquilts.com), and I went to check out her hand-dyed yarns. I fell for this one, Sophie's Toe Sock yarn, 100% merino superwash, 350 yards, in the Iris colorway :

When it arrived, I went to put it with my sockweight yarn and found a skein of Koigu in a very similar colorway:

I also found a solid purple Koigu kppm skein:

I love having yarn in my stash, waiting for something to happen. Now I get to dream about what I could create with these three skeins, 700 yards of sockweight yarn:

 I'm thinking maybe socks or a shawl, perhaps Antarktis....❀❀❀

Fall in the Garden

Because it was such a glorious fall day, I took my half-completed shawl (The Lonely Tree Shawl by Sylvia Bo Bilvia, knit in Madelinetosh vintage Glazed Pecan) out to the back garden to take a work in progress picture:

I also had to capture some garden shots as we are having a rare, true autumn. Typically, the green foliage  is struck by a hard frost in early September, causing the foliage to brown quickly and fall. But this year, we've still not had a hard frost, so there was time for the changing colours to happen:

coral bells

hardy geranium

hardy geranium

sedum 'Autumn Joy'

spirea

false astilbe

plum

spirea

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barberry

leaves on the rundle rock path

a local artist's glass ball

view of the backyard and garage from the house

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October 22: Finished pics: