There’s a side to my personality – the engineer! – that continually strives to find patterns, build structures, impose order.  Thank heavens, then, there’s another side of me – one that prefers to let go, to open wide the thought and let in the serendipitous, the many wonders that fall into our laps without us having to do a thing, and might never even have imagined existed or were possible.

D > Consider this simple Beanie hat I’m knitting with J’s latest yarn. Shetland wool, in three natural fleece colours – black, grey, white.

I’ve been busy finishing off a number of projects for the Hebridean Woolshed. A this-and-that sort of a day.

Jonathan looks very snug, trying on the new neck-warmer design I’ve been working on.

Jonathan > Having a lovely time producing batches of three skeins of various colour combinations : a base of naturally-coloured Shetland, together with pre-coloured merino.  The difficulty I have is taking photos that accurately represent the actual colours of the yarn. So much technology these days is dumbed-down to make it simple to use.  They also tend to hype-up the colours to make photos seem more attractive (and Instagrammable?) to the average user.  This photo was taken with the Canon 70D, and I’ve discovered a setting that matches the white-balance (colour calibration) to the ‘colour’ of the light the photo … Continue reading →