Yesterday afternoon I started digging out a new flowerbed, to clear my head and defuse my anger at the kids and their incessant quarrelling. Continued today. The flowerbed-to-be currently looks like a mud field and is not very photogenic, so here’s a pretty flower instead.
[…] The yarn for the pink ones at the top of the pile was a bit of a wild card. It looked different in the photo – the yellows and whites were more prominent – and when I saw it in reality, I wasn’t even sure if I’d use the yarn at all. On a whim I still knitted up a pair of socks, because why not. Now they’re one of my favourites. Well, many of them are my favourites, but the pink ones are my happy socks. They look like candy, I thought at first, but I’m not that much into candy really. So now I think of them as the colour of summer flowers – dahlias and cosmos. […]