Yesterday was our one  year anniversary of wedded BLISS.  I am so very lucky to be married to such a wonderful man.  I threw together a salad for dinner and baked a cake.  He surprised me with flowers and a poem.  He composes a new poem for me every year.  He made the flowers too.  Apparently year one is devoted to paper.  When I heard that I gave him a book that I  had purchased as his Christmas gift. It is extra suitable because he just finished reading The Hobbit to my youngest and is now working his way through Lord of the Rings.

My absolute favorite flowers are peonies.  He did a great job didn’t he?  Even better he made baby pink with deep pink edges.  I love the pale pink peonies best of all and bi color ones are always fun to look at.  Other favorite flowers are lily of valley and gerbera daisies.  The daisies don’t have a scent but are so amusing.  He propped my poem on my pillow and made a ring of peonies on the bed.  In the picture you can see the baby blanket I am knitting for my grandson.  It is a Stonington Shawl.  Speaking of shawls I did block my Vostok and here are a ton of pictures:

That is my shawl draped across a blue chair for some contrast.  I am rather fond of the coin pattern used as main lace.  It is made with a double yarn over on a stocking stitch ground so absurdly open.  I deleted a couple of patterns that featured it, and were saved in my queue, after seeing how open it was but you know~ I really like it.  Next we have two pictures of it over my arm so the view of it is double fabric but backlit

That is the coin pattern.  You can easily see how the  netting would easily trap one’s fingers.  Still it is a filmy delight.

Against another chair back:

I probably shouldn’t be showing this since I may end up gifting it away for Christmas.  I am just very pleased with the project.  Quite a few people complain that it isn’t as large as the pattern picture would lead one to believe but honestly I think it is just perfect.  It is wide enough for my wingspan and it does hit me below the waist.  Of course I am rather short~ 5’4″ but I am also a wide woman so there is certainly enough coverage provided.   While I was downloading these pictures there was one on my camera I had forgotten taking.  I was making a sandwich and looked down to see this:

Seriously it wasn’t on purpose.  But it was one of those moments that I felt like capturing.  Sometimes I feel so disgustingly happy and am surprised by how it manifests. Anyway yarny days and knitterly evenings