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I needed a bit of cheering up today and ended up buying this beautiful red malabrigo yarn. A cheerful cardigan for myself is in order!

I know I’m probably terribly behind the times, but have you seen these?! Embroidered Penguin Classics!

As a graphic designer and a sometime embroiderer I really appreciate the skill behind Jillian Tamaki’s work on these. I love them, they’re beautiful.

Note: I’m having some colour issues between lightroom & exporting for flickr… my original raw file is wonderfully vibrant and accurate, my exported sRGB image is as you see above. While I expect some desaturation, this is the worst I’ve seen and I’m trying to think of a solution as it seems to be mainly confined to the saturation of blues… in the meantime I hope you can take my word that the turquoise is stunningly intense, not the cornflower blue you see above.

Lately colour has been at the center of everything I’ve been creating, designs and knitting and crochet projects. I’ve been particularly attracted to bright and bold combinations of green and blue, and when I received the Tangled Yarns newsletter on Friday I ran in to the shop at closing time to check out their just arrived shipment of Cascade Ultra Pima. I needed to know without delay if the colours were as striking as they appeared… and I’m happy to report the colours are magnificent!

Pima cotton has a beautiful sheen I think mainly due to the extra long staple, it has a slinkiness (technical term ;) and a beautiful drape without (hopefully) being too heavy. I had a project in mind that was practically screaming to be made up in this:

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I think it will look fantastic! Or at least be very colourful and comfortable :)

Blooming Flower Cushion by Lucy at Attic24.

I’ve also started the cushion covers to match my ripple blanket, I’ve decided to crochet the Blooming Flower Cushion by Lucy at Attic24.

In fact, I think I’ll get back to it right now!

Have a great week!

Oh my goodness! This lady had some mad origami skills!

Please pop on over to her flickr stream and appreciate them all!

Found via Erin Loechner

I’m in such a creative mood this morning, I want to make and look at colourful objects, my head is bursting full of knitting and sewing pattern ideas. Wouldn’t it be perfect if you could bottle this feeling for when you had the time to take advantage of it?

Let’s hope that work cooperates with my wishes!