The colors of the beads don't show up so well in this snap, but they match the mermaid green fingering weight silk and merino I dyed Monday. I'm thinking about a lace scarf. As luck would have it, I have tiny little crochet hooks that I inherited from my husband's great-grandmother, along with lots of knitting needles. I had no clue what to do with the 2.4 lb. of crochet hooks at the time, but now I look forward to using some of them and thinking of Eunice, who I never really go to know.On another note, a design note I suppose, do you ever have an idea that keeps cropping up on you until it just seems like you must make whatever it is? A really lovely top appeared in the le bouton catalog sometime back - I just love it. I asked Lisa if she was okay with my making some kind of adaptation of it, and she said that was okay with her. Then I was looking statcounter and looking at who looks at my stuff - and how very cool, there is a blog in Denmark that links to mine (thanks so much, what a cool compliment that is) - the author does really lovely spinning, but I can't return the favor and read it (lazy American). I've tried some translation software, and I can get some but I think both idiomatics and diacritics are against me. But I spent some time checking out other blogs she links to and I found this (scroll down to the entry for 4/28/08). Pretty similar, hun? I think both are beautiful, simple, and accentuate the neck in a way that appeals to me.
So what's my point? Maybe after I finish up Soryu (yes, I'm back at that, too, I've spun almost a whole other bobbin to ply) I'll get myself some nice natural brown grey and spin up enough to make a fishing shirt that pays homage to these 2 lovely designs.
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