Early Spring in baby pink

Oh this week-end really smelled like Spring. I wanted to go back to the woods so badly, and pick up daffodils, and have a long walk near the lake and start growing veggies on my tiny balcony....

Well, I might pop up to my local nursery to grap some soil tonight, and try to find a way to buy organic seeds online. If you know were I could find some, that would be so great to share these info with me! The balcony is quite small, and its mostly sunny in the morning, so I wonder what kind of veggies I could grow there...

Since I'm having my kitchen filled with beautiful flowers almost every week,  I decided that it could be so nice to keep a trace of the plants that I had at home during the year, and press them into a botanical diary. I could also add some treasures that I would find in the woods.

On my needles... the last hat for the "knit twelve hats in a year challenge". I cannot believe this is the last one!

 

 

 

I wanted to be a bit more adventurous for this hat and chose a color out of my comfort zone. Since Spring is around the corner, and flowers are going to bloom anytime soon, I thought it could be a really nice way to embrace this new season.

The yarn is Cascade Heather 220 in baby pink. And the pattern... well, I'll keep you updated, and show you more of my wip during this month. What I can tell you about it, is it's a new pattern that has been realised recently by a very talented lady, and it features one of my favourite stitches.

How's the Spring going in your part of the world?

Eleven out of twelve {a test knit hat}

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon one amazing picture on sweaterspotter's Instagram profile. She posted this beautiful photograph of a yellowish, bubblish hat, that happened to be her newest design. As soon as I saw it, I knew that I had to knit it, sooner or later. Lucky me, I was able to test knit it! 

Oh this pattern was such a joy to knit! Bobble after bobble, you could see how the whole thing was going to turn out. And after the first repeat, I realized how brilliantly Anna wrote it down. I don't know when the pattern's going to be released, but I'm pretty sure that as soon at it will be, a lot of needles are going to click.

The yarn that I used for this project was really not the best choice though. The pattern calls for a worsted weight yarn, but I couldn't find any here, so I decided to double this sport weight instead. Even though I enjoyed knitting the pattern a lot, the yarn was a big challenge for me. It wasn't really pleasant between my fingers. So, I'm really looking forward to knitting it again, but with some exquisitely soft yarn.