tangled...: inspiration

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16 June 2014

oh! the colors!

my little coastal garden is filled with color inspiration these days...

I have been marveling, in particular, at the common alstroemerias that grow like weeds along a rustic fence just outside my kitchen door...

most of them are pink, but occasionally we get one that is gloriously orange...

and with that blue, blue, blue sky of early summer?

even these ordinary lilies become breathtaking...

of course, the temptation to knit with these colors was too great...

isager alpaca merino 2 from

my favorite yarn shop...

pretty darn yummy, eh?

22 April 2013

raphanus raphanistrum on a monday morning...

the color inspiration...

and the cables...

02 March 2013

theatre shadows...

as some of you know,

this tangled knitter

can sometimes be found on the stage...

this was taken last night on the set of our up-coming show, boy gets girl

theatre shadows...

love the lines

love the colors

design inspiration can be found

in the most unexpected places...

01 March 2013

color inspiration...

oh! the colors...

the base of a bridge beautifully "painted" by nature...

or a gate pocked by rust...

color inspiration

can be found

in the most wonderful places...

28 January 2013

colors...

the colors of a rusty gate...

inspire...

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. ”

― Oscar Wilde

08 January 2013

color inspiration...

a mendocino coast sunset...

pamela w allen designs

now...what can I knit in these colors?

18 December 2012

winter colors...

the winter colors...

of our beautiful coast...

always inspire...

17 December 2012

dear fellow knitter...

it has been a year of tragedy, both personal and collective...

but we knit on

we knit through the tears and the unbearable sorrow
we knit through the confusion, the bewilderment,
and the terrible realization that we'll never understand

we knit on
stitch by painful stitch
knitting, knitting, knitting
until the light glimmers through the gloom
and the darkness fades

we knit on

may your holidays be filled with joy...

may you find peace and harmony...

may you bask in the light that returns, always, every year

and may you find yourself with needles and beautiful yarn

knitting on...

pamela

12 December 2012

december flower...

the tree dahlia has its first bloom...

and this is DECEMBER?

oh, my...

11 December 2012

inspiration...

color...

persimmon on boxwood

13 March 2012

the rain...

the rain has returned...

we in mendocino have delighted in the warm sun that has shone during this most unusual winter

but we need the rain...

and of course, the rain gives one a wonderful excuse to KNIT

...not that one needs an excuse

at the moment, I am finishing up a baby beret with a cabled band...it began as another cable baby hat, but while I was knitting, I remembered how much I love the little cable-banded berets that I used to make...

photo by Anna Myers

so...a cable baby beret is on my needles...and, I have decided that when the 100th cable baby project is posted on ravelry (currently at 99!), I will offer the cable baby beret pattern as a way of celebrating...

though it is still MARCH, I am reminded, with this rain...and, indeed, with my own personal "rain" which has been relentless these past months...of this poem by Langston Hughes:

APRIL RAIN SONG

Let the rain kiss youLet the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.

Langston Hughes