ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

Which is covered in snow and ice with the odd bit of green grass trying to show itself. It was bitterly cold and we were on our way to buy of all things, Red Cabbage – at the Albert Hein To Go at the Haarlem railway station.

There was a young man walking across our path, about the same age as our son Morgan. We said Happy New Year to each other, He spoke to me in Dutch, and I said I didn’t understand him. He pointed at my very large “The blues” triangular shawl and said in English that he loved my shawl. So just maybe not having a wonderful intarsia sweater is not so important after all. Here in the Netherlands noone would see it as it would be under my coat and shawl. And my shawl is of many colours although it is mainly a rich bright blue, knitted in garter stitch and it wraps around my neck a couple of times which is crucial in this cold environment. In New Zealand I would not use it as it is never that cold and it is too large to just be a shawl over the shoulders. The problem could be of course that I am short and not that it is soo large.

Thank you young man for liking my shawl and for saying so.