two parts green, one part blue

Yes, at the beginning of this dye-your-own journey I had my sights set on red.  But when I discovered what happened to my gray yarn when I dipped it for just a short bit of time into a two-parts-lemon-lime, one-part-blue-berry kool aid mix I knew that in my heart I'll always be a green girl.  And if I'm going to commit myself to knitting up an adult sized sweater, that I should listen to my heart.  So green it is.  And here it is a skein scarf (as I remember seeing on the cover of Organic Style years ago...) and as a pile tempting the cat while waiting to be wound into balls. 

This pound of green woolery makes me think of spring, of new growth and of the warmer days ahead.  I feel like this knitting project is about much more than turning string to cloth.  To me it's about transforming something from the home of my childhood that I've been carrying around for years.  It's about taking charge and changing things up so that they work better for me.  I'm looking forward to settling in with the needles later tonight, to carrying forward on this journey.