Yes, it’s a new month, a new colour a new poem.....
Ode to a Blue Scarf
A stimulative, innovative pattern Is taking over all thought With its delicate, intricate working Its birth will be hard fought.
The beautiful tracery of lacery Will quite take your breath away While its crepuscular, duskular blueness Will suit both the evening and day.
But the fuzziness and fluffiness of yarn Soon dismiss all my ideas of lace And continuity of ingenuity is needed To prevent a complete loss of face.
So ponderance on my quanderance takes over. From the elaborate I have to refrain. I decide on simplicity with felicity - I think I’ll just do it all plain.
For the next four weekends, Eastgate House in Rochester, Kent, is hosting the Medway Arts Festival and I am lucky enough to have a small display unit for some of my jewellery and beaded items. (I know I live in Surrey, but I was actually born at a very early age in Gillingham, Kent.) This is the event for which I was making the Greenman Hat and it seemed fitting that I finished it off in May when the colour for the Spectrum Project was green. I’m afraid that the knitting marathon quite put me off the finishing so I was a bit pushed at the end but I’m so glad that I completed it. Here is a rather dodgy picture of it in situ.
Eastgate House, in Rochester High Street, will be open from 10.30 to 4.30 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday on 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 9th, 10th & 11th, 18th, 19th & 20th, and 27th, 28th & 29th June, as will its sister venue, the New Arts Centre in Chatham.
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Friday 23rd June 2006
The Feat of Evolution
It seems Mother Nature knew quite well The chances that are feet might smell And so arranged to put our toes As far as possible from our nose. We sock and shoe our metatarsels Tighter than we wrap our parcels And thus achieve - with evolution - A perfect odour-free solution. (Though if Mother Nature had thought this through She would have seen what else to do, And could have ultimately refined us By having our feet stick out behind us.)
