Spring Ahead

The US changed when we do Daylight Savings Time this year, now it's 3 weeks earlier. So it's really weird to get up when it's dark, and see the (beautiful, today) sunrise when I am on the way to work. It is nice to have some light when I get home. It has coincided with really warm weather, so everything melts during the day but doesn't soak into the still-frozen ground, and then it freezes again in the morning. But there are definite signs that spring is on its way.

In the meantime, I finished a few things, some reading: The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski, which is an amazing book although some really horrible things happen in it, and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell, which I've been reading for like forever but since it was a big unwieldy hardcover I couldn't take it on plane trips or on the bus so it was hard to find time to read it... and I accidentally dropped it into the bath the other week :(

And this sock, for K. I had made her some Harry Potter socks many years ago out of Lamb's Pride Superwash which she had outgrown... so when she was cleaning out her drawer she had mentioned how she had liked these soft socks (which was news to me), so I designed some socks for her. She doesn't like socks that come up too high, so I made ankle socks.



I also finished the back for Lightning (the sweater I posted the other day) but I am still yet to photograph it and have the colours come out true. Maybe now that there is more light I will be able to later.