The Mechanics of Art

February has been a really crazy month. I can usually gauge how things are going by what I'm knitting and what I've finished knitting. When I mentioned this to Allen last night I did a little mental inventory.

1. slippers for my brother-in-law's post surgery recovery - one nearly done just missing a seam; the other not yet cast-on
2. February Sock-Club socks - cuffs and one pattern repeat finished (2 at a time), and this is the *short* month...YIKES!
3. baby blanket - about 6 rows done, in about 2 weeks baby will be 5 months old...thinking I might want to plan a bigger blankie.

I did make a few more stitch markers for myself because the previous ones didn't fit on the size 8 needles for the blanket; I made a new beaded row counter to keep track of the pattern repeats on the socks; I unraveled a neckband and 3/4 of a sleeve of a sweater during our ministry trip to Transport for Christ in Rochelle, IL

...about 5 minutes into the trip it was too dark to see the socks. All in all, there just hasn't been much actual knitting time this month.
About a week ago, I came across something very interesting that made me pause. . .
When my husband and I were just dating I was doing cross stitch and made a picture of a humming bird into a clock for my in-laws to be. This outdoes that gift by 1000 times! Sometimes you come across something so ordinary yet so exquisite! This is one of those things for me.
Siren Elise Wilhelmsen | Design Studio
Of course this immediately sent my mind into, "now where is that little knitting machine I got for Sydney a few years ago? hmmm, I could get a clock mechanism from Michael's....." Then I snapped back to reality and just admired it.  But you better believe if I ever see one for sale, it will be on my wall!!
I wish I lived anywhere near Germany so I could see it in person!

May God Bless Your Stitches,
Nance