HINT OF THINGS TO COME

All right, so maybe no one wants to think about autumn right now considering we're still knee-deep in July, BUT we knitters always plan ahead. We like to ruminate on our next projects and decorate our brainscapes with things to come.

Like everyone else, I love my too-brief summer yet my favorite season above all is autumn. The world is richer, sweeter, more fullsome and lucious in the fall, made more so knowing that it's a fleeting glory soon to end.

While still up to my ankles in spring, I begin designing for autumn. This year came in with a yearning for spicy gold-greens mixed with ripening violet berries--all the textures of the harvest. Above you see a preview of one of my fall designs. Hint: it's a jacket.

WHERE IN THE WORLD??

L'Antico Pozzo--San Gimignano

If it's early July, I must be....somewhere else, with a little luck, that is. The scene above is taken outside the L'Antico Pozzo in the Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano, where we plan to spend a few days. As I write this (a couple of weeks earlier), I am in the state of anticipation, hoping that my allergies will subside/not act up with some wierd reaction to, um, pasta or something and that this trip will be the grand creative and cultural (and gastronomic) excursion we've been hoping for.

Inspiration alert! Knitaly is the land of endlessly innovative textiles and you can believe I'll be seeking them out, gathering disparate threads of vibrant color to stir into the brew of my imagination.

LYN'S SEAGRASS

Lyn Parker from  England sent me these pictures of her completed Seagrass capelet and I asked her permission to share. I just love these turquoises banded in sandy dunes and her choice of beads to anchor the bottom edges. She writes: