Sea of gray

In the wintertime, Kyiv tends to become a sea of gray. Once everything is covered in snow, or more likely, dirty snow, there’s not much in the way of color to be found on an average day. In order to keep myself from drowning, I’ve started a couple of brightly colored projects. (Sorry for the poor photos – the sea of gray and lack of sun makes indoor photography a little challenging.)

Socks! I was on a big sock knitting kick for a while, but hadn’t done any knitting projects at all for a while. Then I found this yarn (although they don’t seem to have my particular color any more) that my mom had sent me quite a while ago and decided it was time to get a-knittin’.

And a quilt! Actually, two twin-sized quilts. Again, kudos to mom for buying me the fabric and pattern about two years ago. They were originally supposed to be for our guest room here in Kyiv, but then it turned out that we didn’t have a guest room. So the fabric sat in the back of the closet. But I’ve got my fingers crossed for a bigger apartment in Nassau, so I’m working on putting the tops together, then I can hand-quilt them while I’m in DC next summer without a sewing machine.