Scrumptious chalky pink super-soft 80% cotton and 20% alpaca Louisa Harding Colline yarn – you are so like a beautiful bundle of marshmallows in your skeins, what might become of you?
You look very pretty with Noro Shiro wool, cashmere and silk … and yet, no.
AFTER:
You can stand alone.
You can be an Ancestors Apron and Ancestors Bodice, all drapey and textured and for a dearheart in the United States, like wearing marshmallow.
All is on the wane here; the long grass falls dry and soft yellow, sunlight is dimmed in the morning, the wind is colder. At the same time the bramble berries are bursting with plump ripeness and the Rowan berries shine red in the twilight as crows squawk in delight at them. We fall into …
“And a bird overhead sang Follow,And a bird to the right sang Here;And the arch of the leaves was hollow,And the meaning of May was clear.”~Algernon Charles Swinburne~ The dawn chorus of robin and song thrush, blackbird and wren. The sweet scent of gorse on the breeze. The clear blue of wild bluebells and a …
Vibrant emerald green fades quickly to muted dusky brown. Our Hebridean sky becomes more complicated with squally clouds edged in black and orange-red speeding above us. The wind carries wild autumn seeds of Hogweed and Bishop’s Lace that will settle and sow themselves to flower next year. Goldfinches eat the last Self-Heal seeds and sparrows …
Metamorphosis: Marshmallow Ancestors Apron & Ancestors Bodice
BEFORE:
Scrumptious chalky pink super-soft 80% cotton and 20% alpaca Louisa Harding Colline yarn – you are so like a beautiful bundle of marshmallows in your skeins, what might become of you?
You look very pretty with Noro Shiro wool, cashmere and silk … and yet, no.
AFTER:
You can stand alone.
You can be an Ancestors Apron and Ancestors Bodice, all drapey and textured and for a dearheart in the United States, like wearing marshmallow.
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