new loves

meet olive

a small package was sitting on my doorstep yesterday. inside was wee olive. her passage to california paid by a mysterious benefactor. olive loves adventure and is afraid of spiders. i love her. we are already bff's.
visit yoborobo for more softie goodness.  

*happy* 

finishing my simple noro shawl

made me a little sad

this is the kind of meditative knit

that is nice to have on the needles.

no thinking or counting or where was i?

just peaceful, soothing,

needles moving in harmony with wool, again, again...

but wanting to wear it got the better of me

and so it's done

first i asked my husband to take some photos

and then i wore it out to breakfast

with my friends.

.: simple yet effective shawl :.

raverly link here

modification, for my knitter friends, i used noro silk garden ( a worsted weight)

 instead of noro kureyon sock, and size six needles. it seemed to work. i totally lost count how many skeins it took. buying only a couple at a time made it more affordable. i am guessing twelve or thirteen.

gulp. it's good i really love it.

xoxo lori

p.s. thank you cheryl for the crush cakes photos and thank you kj for olive  :)