Way back last summer, Gryphon of the Sanguine Gryphon visited me at our cottage. While she was there we were chatting and knitting and chatting some more. Among other things we were chatting about my next book, and Gryphon graciously offered some yarn support. Some of that yarn was the lovely red Eidos seen in my last post.
Fast forward to October and Rhinebeck, and more particularly the week after Rhinebeck, and you’ll recall that the Sanguine Gryphon announced that it was splitting into two separate companies – the Verdant Gryphon and Cephalopod Yarns. Since both Gryphon and Sarah are such wonderful dyers, it seemed like a great idea to try to include yarn from both of their new companies in my upcoming book. Sarah and I started discussing green. I was looking for a nice cedar green for one of the shawls and Sarah asked me to take a picture of what I had in mind.
This is what I sent her as a starting point (and asked her ever so kindly to overlook the dead orange parts on my cedar trees).
And this is what she came up with.
Allowing for the poor lighting in the first shot, it’s absolutely perfect. So…… now that I’ve finished the red shawl in Eidos from the Verdany Gryphon, the next design is green Skinny Bugga! from Cephalopod Yarns. And given all the cold, white snow we have outdoors, green is just what I need to feel that spring is around the corner (who am I kidding? It will be another 3 months….. Still, if I can fool myself into thinking it’s soon, that’s wonderful).
