I hope you are having a restful Sunday.
This week sees a new knitting friend to add to last week’s: a toucan who is enjoying some knitting and sunlight in a purple lopapeysa sweater.
I have always loved toucans and their stunning colours — they are the opposite of camouflage, brazenly themselves. At least that’s how I think of it.
And Spring is a good time for artists (I am speaking for myself). The return of the sun makes colours extra vivid, bringing out their worlds of feeling. The surfaces and textures of stitches, fabric, and fiber become more brilliant, too. Working outdoors or with windows ajar, I feel connected to the slow sprouting of life around me. A quiet sweetness of being becomes possible.
Wishing you peace and sunny days this week. 🙂
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This is so cute!
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Thanks, AJ. Thanks for reading. 🙂
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Adorable toucan! I agree with you: there’s is something quite magical in working with the window open after long winter months 🙂 Wishing you a happy spring!
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Isn’t there? 🙂 Thank you for reading, Anne. I wish you and your workshop sunlight and inspiration!
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That is an amazing piece! I think that is the first time I’ve ever seen an image of a toucan crafting! Perhaps this is the first image of its kind in history! Just delightful! You should do an entire series of birds crafting 🙂
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Thanks, Tierney, for the kind comments. Crafting birds sounds like a really fun idea. 🙂
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Your knitting toucan is delightful. I am particularly enchanted by her fair isle jersey. (It must have been carefully designed so that it does not stretch when she pulls it on over that beak. 😂)
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😄 Yes, I think the fair isle sweater is beak-friendly (perhaps there’s a zipper in the back to make things easier!). Thanks for reading and commenting, Mariss.
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