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No secret, I am a Habu/Avril fan. This book offers plenty of ideas and is beautiful. The yellow projects make me smile!

Rorschach yarn

Lieveke sees pink.
Noor sees red.
Gabriel sees blue.
I see purple.
...from here.

Issey

Issey is all done and simply beautiful. A sculpture. A necklace. A scarf. A friend. A therapy. All in one.
I am improvising a simple cotton one piece top with flared sleeves to go with.
I am satisfied.
Very.

Envelope

A most perfect envelope : the Kakomu jacket.
My version in baby alpaca. Warm. Soft.  Long and fluid. Blackest. This one  is close to my heart, not only because the designer Kirsten gifted the pattern generously,  but also because the jacket's construction is simply pure, with minimalist cut, clean line and pristine understated detail (reverse stockingstitch, rolling collar, expressed seams).

The partner loves it too, surprisingly.  He is my worst critic, nothing much attains the level of the Gabriel approval, but this jacket was noticed and complimented upon with a little embrace and a whisper 'so nice...'.

More overall pics here and here, and shoulder detail here.

Ravelry tech here.

sapling

I need to sprout.  It feels like winter, wet and chilled and glum, is sitting in a corner of the house, sulking.  I will chase it away with something spring and sappy. Athough this one makes the sun shine in a wink too... And so as I've just finished knitting Kakomu (now blocking and hopefully to be assembled this weekend) I think Holl will do the trick.  To be my last winterknit of the year.

Man

the man
...
when i saw the colour of the cashmere
i knew who it was for
the colour of concrete and land
and in the pattern i saw the land again
ridged, grooved, battered, pathed
grey and green
in one
...
my one.

(the scapes are stills out of Gabriels videopoems)

Aspire.

It is the schoolholidays. Oh yes. Playdates, tired tears, parks, scooters, band aids, sleepovers, giggles, ear-infections, iceblocks, library, lots of cuddles and loooots of lovings, cinema outings, more giggles, theatre plays, hot tears (mine), dinosaurs, goggles, tired tears again, icecreams, screams, cafe visits, snoring in between tantrums (ha).
I knit a few stitches in olive-oaken yarn but mostly just fall asleep in zzze couch, when I wake up - a little frazzled yeh - I stroke my Belgian linens for there was a sale in the favorite store and fondle that funny Habu sizing for I had to have it.