The fading light
Incredibly the clocks went back this weekend and the resulting manipulation of my days makes the shift from autumn to winter feel inevitable. I am not quite ready, I was loving autumn with its warm golden light. Yesterday we seemed barely home from school than the light was fading and it was time to draw the curtains and light the lamps.
I must adjust.
November, one of those grim, grey months, it is always linked in my mind with January and February. None of the cheer and excitement of December, the leaves are deserting the trees, the light is fading by the day. A transition sort of month.
I have knitting to accompany me though so it's not all bad and once one accepts the day is gone you may as well light the fire and embrace the evenings, needles to hand, perhaps a little House to watch, a cup of chai at elbow.
A Tiny Tea Leaves cardigan. Sadly not being knitted in glorious Madeline Tosh Vintage but instead I am using the much more economical Cascade 220. I am not too sad about the yarn substitution, in fact I am rather in love with Cascade 220. So many colours! Yes, I know, all those colours and I choose this very reserved shade of blue, it is being knit to match several things and Miss Tilly loves blue. It really is a splendid yarn though, squishy and satisfyingly woolly so I shall certainly explore the colours more thoroughly in future projects.
Incredibly the clocks went back this weekend and the resulting manipulation of my days makes the shift from autumn to winter feel inevitable. I am not quite ready, I was loving autumn with its warm golden light. Yesterday we seemed barely home from school than the light was fading and it was time to draw the curtains and light the lamps.
I must adjust.
November, one of those grim, grey months, it is always linked in my mind with January and February. None of the cheer and excitement of December, the leaves are deserting the trees, the light is fading by the day. A transition sort of month.
I have knitting to accompany me though so it's not all bad and once one accepts the day is gone you may as well light the fire and embrace the evenings, needles to hand, perhaps a little House to watch, a cup of chai at elbow.
A Tiny Tea Leaves cardigan. Sadly not being knitted in glorious Madeline Tosh Vintage but instead I am using the much more economical Cascade 220. I am not too sad about the yarn substitution, in fact I am rather in love with Cascade 220. So many colours! Yes, I know, all those colours and I choose this very reserved shade of blue, it is being knit to match several things and Miss Tilly loves blue. It really is a splendid yarn though, squishy and satisfyingly woolly so I shall certainly explore the colours more thoroughly in future projects.
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I feel the same way about the darkness. I just can't get used to leaving for work in the pitch black!
Have a cosy week.
Helen x
I'll get bored with it soon ;-)
I use to get so depressed in November - now I try and embrace it as it gracefully flutters away to the excitement and merryment of December and Christmas - January and February are a totally different story though!
Nina xxx
That wool is lovely... very tempted to buy lots!
Celia
x
Our clocks do their "fall back" routine this weekend. Two days in, our November days have been so beautiful! And I've also been filling free hours with lots of knitting. And baking. Much more appealing now than during those hot summer New York days.
Best wishes.
I'm no fan of November either although it is not the cruelest month.
K x
What is wonderful is the colour of your yarn and I am sure that also grown-up girls would love to have such a vibrant cardi, especially now whith the fading daylight.
I think I'm a bit weird, because I love the look of November. I love the outline of the bare tree branches against a a fiery sunset, the first mornings when everything is covered in frost, the quiet, soft tones of a slumped meadow. Perhaps it's also that I love that "tucked in" feeling, with my knitting and a hot cuppa.
I also want to say that Miss Tilly is wearing my favourite colour in a previous!! Yummy Red! :) She looks adorable.