ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

The shops windows all have orange decorations, the orange merchandise is flowing out the doors, and the country will be in an orange shambles by the end of tomorrow.

In Amsterdam there will be an orange mess for some days because the cleaners strike at the railway station has become a Queens Day cleaners strike all over.

So an orange mess everywhere after the celebrations for the Queens Birthday.

I have an orange hat and have been knitting a crown for fun. Trouble is I decided to knit it out of crepe paper and not yarn. My wrist is not coping.

My crown will not be in use this Queens Day – maybe next year instead.

Crepe paper is interesting to knit with – but it is slow knitting and doesn’t flow well. The knitting looks okay – and the texture is great, so I will complete it just not for this Queens Day. it might turn out to be something else of couse. Since I have been in the Netherlands I have added shadow knitting, felting, knitting with plastic, moebius with magic cast on, carbon footprint graphs, knit graffiti, Danish shawls and now knitting with crepe paper to my list of new experiences.

It is not so quiet outside – 10.20pm and the party is already on in the park.

Our very local yarn shop has just been sold. My Dutch language is not very good – so I don’t know yet if that means that the business has been sold and it will still be a yarn shop, or if means that the shop only has been sold, which means there will not be any yarns available within 500 metres of where I live. And those yarns in the little shop are all reduced in price, and some reduced very heavily indeed. It makes my pulse race the thought of lovely yarns at reduced prices. What to do?

Of course I have been in there looking at the yarns, (only at the ones at reduced prices of course), and trying so hard to justify buying some more yarn. Why!!!!

I have so much yarn already.

But then “Is it possible to ever ever have sufficient yarn?” I don’t know the answer to that question, do you?

But there is an event coming up, a huge national celebration all over the Netherlands – Queens Day Koninginnedag the biggest, most orange party you could ever ever imagine.

But, back to the yarn – they had orange yarn (now that is such a coincidence), acrylic yarn, entirely suitable for a yarn bombing, urban art, graffiti art knit, knit art graffiti, guerilla art, you name it – this orange yarn is so suitable for a piece or two for Queen’s Day.

I do not usually have very much Orange yarn in my collection, nor do I usually have very much acrylic yarn in my collection. Now I have both of those and it is only 19 days to Queen’s Day.

I have an orange hat to wear to the party, but I might also have a little orange knitting to install somewhere as well. I’ll let you know.

This will be a great knitting day – I am discarding my Haarlem Ball Project, as without balls there can be no project (that is the news today)

It is a real pity because I was planning a Delft intarsia or fair isle piece, and an orange piece in preparation for Queens Day.

So back to real work today

Knitting, Designing, Colour, Yarn, Abstract ideas, Thinking, Ball Warmers.
Writing, Colour, Intarsia, E-book, Carbon Footprint, Beret’s, Intarsia Jacket, Pattern for Ravelry, Thinking,
Ball Warmers.

It is not as if I have nothing to do.