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The sock-yarn blanket is maybe a foot long. That's all the colours, and they will be mixed in various ways and various zigzags and one day it'll be a big, colourful blanket. 

For now, though, it is going in a drawer for a few weeks or months while I return to Toronto and the two-coloured sweater. It's probably still too warm to knit on that there, but I will do my best. 

We have had 6 or 7 weeks in Vancouver with not a drop of rain. Imagine, going from Vancouver to Toronto to get some rain! 

More yellow and some new knitting

I do think of yellowness when I am out and about, so my mini Project Spectrum is a success in that way, but I don't get around to blogging about it. This is partly because my blogging energies are taken up with another project, Mostly Roys, a trip through a family album that I recently discovered.

But, here I am now. With some yellow roses in Stanley Park. 

Stephen and I went to New Westminster and walked along the very gussied-up riverside with a friend. On our way back through town we found this sign at a level railway crossing. 

Quintessential Vancouver yellow: the sulphur piles on the North Shore, along with Girl in a Wetsuit. 

 Bus yellow. 

New knitting! We have been trying to get some furniture for our new condo, but there is a global shipping foul-up and it is hard to find a chair, along with bike parts, loom accessories, computer chips and many other household goods. We did manage to get a couple of chairs for the living room, and a bed, all grey! You want a different colour, wait until October... 

So I have started knitting an afghan to throw over our grey furniture. It doesn't look like much yet, but I can assure you that I have some garish greens and a shocking pink in the wings. 

We are off to Victoria for a few days later this week, so there will be blog fodder galore, perhaps!

Now it's July

A big yellow flower for the start of July. 

I shall wander around in my big yellow hat looking for yellow things. 

We have been accumulating furniture here, but it is a slow process and it turns out that everything is grey. We have dark brown floors and thought we'd like to lighten things up, but we have a chair with a dark grey cushion and a bed with a dark grey headboard. So one plan is to make an afghan or pillow covers in some jazzy tones to liven things up a bit. Stay tuned: I do have a yarn-shop-hopping date set up for next week!