And that was May

May was the month of RED in my own little Project Spectrum.

I didn't make anything red, since my black and blue sweater is occupying all my time. 

But I did take pictures of red things. First we have the tulips, which were just spectacular this year and carried on blooming for ages! No big rain and wind storms to wreck them, I guess. 

A Canada150 tulip still holding on. 

Yellow tulips with subtle red edging, and one gone a bit rogue. 

So red. 

Another garden bursting with tulips!

These had the sun shining through them so amazingly!

A blooming tree. I'm going to guess some sort of crabapple, but I don't know for sure. 

A peony, perhaps more pink than red, but so pretty!

A reddish building. 

A red we see so often: lights on a car.

More car stuff: a cute little vintage MG sports car and a kids' car-like thing. 

And finally, the whole rainbow! A sticker on a bench outside the library. 

Tomorrow is June, and I'll have to start looking for orange things. Meanwhile, a picture of the black and blue in progress: 

One sleeve to go, and yes, it's supposed to be different lengths. And different colours and different patterns. I have a plan! 

A sock with roots

Despite my last post, this has nothing to do with redness. 

Someone I follow on Instagram is doing a thing... a pop-up art show in an old-growth forest in BC. And she wants socks to hang on a line. Well, how could I say no? Luckily I have a basket full of socks with holes in which no longer fit anyone. She wanted plain coloured ones, which was a bit of a challenge, but I did find one. 

I knitted some roots dangling out the bottom of the hole, since darning this was not going to be much fun. I used Habu silk stainless steel yarn so the pieces can be shaped and twisted, but then I put beads on the ends so that weight sort of counteracts any other shaping. 

I did leave a "tap root" which can stick out here or there. 

There was a tiny hole in the top. How to finish that off? Since I was working with a small bag of miscellaneous beads instead of the gazillions of beads I have elsewhere in the house, I found a hot pink bead with an S on it, and it was Stephen's birthday, so -- problem solved. 

Sometime this summer, my sock will be a part of something exciting!

Today it is May

One thing I enjoyed in the olden days, when every dang knitter had a blog, is a thing called Project Spectrum. People worked on projects of different colours as the months went by. I just thought of this the other day and realised I could do an 8-month version: 

• May: RED
• June: ORANGE
• July: YELLOW
• August: GREEN
• September: BLUE
• October: INDIGO
• November: VIOLET
• December: NEUTRALS

We also used to like using the coloured-text tool. Those were the days. 

I am not sure I have a red project to be working on, but I will keep my eyes open for redness and think about red through May. 

I think this is the last time I saw a rainbow, last summer: 

And I shall have a rainbow of projects!