The Spice Route

Plans for Project Spectrum East involve avoiding yellow as much as possible and doing my own thing…

The weekend

Samaritans, sand, shells, and a few puzzles.

Yellow shell

Found this tiny yellow shell on our Sunday beach walk. It has furnished me with an idea for a PS4 East/Air project, which I hope to concentrate on while Mr L is away.

Yellow dandelion

Obviously suffered at the dogs’ attentions. I found this dandelion head lying in a puddle by the back door. I like this shot because it shows the tenderness of  the petals. The island, and our garden, is awash with dandelions right now – they do really well here. They will be followed by other yellow …

FO: Echoes of Eden

Pair of 4ply fingerless mittens for PIF recipient. Knitted in a lambswool and silk blend in a fabulous turquoise shade incorporating tweedy flecks of green and violet. I started these in February, by knitting the leaf edging, then put the project away to enable concentration on other more pressing projects. I picked them up again …

Spinning Wednesday

Spinning was with S this week. Added delights included a very nice tea bread, and Earl Grey tea, plus two carrier bags of angora fibre goodies sent to us from Orkney Angora (details of which I need to catalogue and circulate to the spinning ladies for the purposes of informing the divvying up of the …