I just got a box of beautiful yarn. Two, actually. Three, actually.
I have wanted to participate in a CAL since I became aware of them a few years ago, but didn’t think I was talented enough to do the kind of complexity that is required to crochet one of them. The yarn is gorgeous, a cotton string, but it is the colors that are so fantastic.
One thing that makes this one really special is that a writer is being honored for his book and you can see that here, he won the Pulitzer for the book, which takes place in WW2. I picked up my copy at the SB Writer’s Conference a couple of years ago, but didn’t have the time to look.
Imagine.
Your work as a writer spinning off into such glorious directions. I chose Herbarium for my colorway on this. I had wanted to try the yarns from Scheepjes for some time, and now I am.
I got the little artist’s sampler box as well, for their Stonewashed and Riverwashed colors.
Practiced using it.
This design came from Bianca, of Bianca’s Crochet Palace in Youtube. Her “Say it With Flowers” and you can see that here:
If you aren’t writing, use a crochet hook. That is what all of us know as writers.
We leave a yarn, and we stud it with hooks.
The yarn has been amazing to look at, and to work with. Really looking forward to making this one. It starts in a few days, and there are several colorways you can read about at the Scheepjes website. These yarns come from The Netherlands, and so they have them in Europe, but not here.
It’s always important how the writer chose to open and end a book, on a sentence.
Here is the first sentence, and the last sentence.
“At dusk they pour from the sky.” — Anthony Doerr
“Until all she can hear are the sighs of cars and the rumble of trains and the sounds of everyone hurrying through the cold.” — Anthony Doerr
Imagine the Pulitzer, or the Booker. Or the Nobel.
(file under things writers want)
What lies between those two sentences is about to take crocheters all over the world into his book and a design they can craft.
How lovely that is.
xxoo!
Adrienne
Adrienne Wilson 