Tuesday, November 24, 2009

THE PUMPKIN EATERS

The Pumpkin-eater Wrap

 I love pumpkin both as a color and as an edible. Come autumn when restaurants and cafes offer pumpkin-flavored this and that, I'm the first in line. Pumpkin pasta? Yes, please. Pumpkin pancakes? Oh, yes (hear me pant).

I could simply roll around in the glory of pumpkin, that rich orangey-gold hue that glimmers like a promise of plenty. This autumn, I knit my pumpkins in chunky weaves of hand-dyed, handspun yarn, threading throughout lengths of corded silk in shades of molten gold. A soft sagey-green akin to the rinds of squash found their place therein as well since I couldn't quite concieve of one hue without the other. Color should excite you, transport or evoke. Perhaps cause you to drool or all of the above.

And, where there's yarn (and food), there's also adornments:

Here a raku runic circle is bound with brass wire to a rare jasper called 'Dragon's Blood'. Soon it will become a necklace. Sitting as it is on my Pumpkin eater Feather and Fan wrap under which I've placed a length of Venetian silk velvet, I am transported. Here I don't so much drool as dream. The empress inside me awakens. Surrounded by such luxurious color she feels blessed.

Empress of the Byzantine Empire