Already Wednesday

it has been a busy time ... and the blog has been rather quiet.
The Knitting Companion however, has been faithfully by my side.
I did pop my head up today long enough to see a butterfly
in the garden.

I will start with Knitting news:



a wonderful Yarn Fairy gave me a
surprise gift last week.
a skein of Regia Cotton/wool blend.
(ooh and ahhhh !)
Look at these lovely calming colours ....
don't they just say "hot summer day" to you?
i can't wait to try this combo yarn. I've never
made socks with cotton in them.
This Regia is about 40% cotton. I'll let you know
(eventually) how things go along.




In work news ...
the month of June had more paperwork involved than anyone
wants to ever have.
The good news is that it's now time to
be Making Things. Thank goodness, because
i'm no fan of paperwork. Above, you can see a bit of what
is happening on my workbench.

And below,
you can see some stones collected at the end of
last summer ... they're about to begin their new lives
as wearable art.




The stones are from
Notre Dame de Portage, Quebec, Canada.
i'm going back to work now.