purple turnips and pink pomegranates

At last I found yarn to begin this sweater. Alafosslopi  Icelandic Lopi wool in a grey/blue colour. There's no rush I'm so enjoying my first sweater knitting in-the-round, knowing how much time I'm going to save stitching it all up. And I'm reading...(I use the term loosely)...two amazing sock books, Sock Innovation and The Joy of Sox. I found a cute pair of colourful fair isle ones that I think H will love.  They have a kind of hippy vibe that will suit my daughter's hippy bedroom, and inner rock-hippy soul. And for myself some simple grey ones knitted in an offset rib pattern that I like....

The nights are drawing in and noses are running. It's perfect knitting weather and we snack on pomegranates that are full of antioxidants, and sit on rugs that have been dyed with their seeds and boiled baby turnips with chilli salt and lime juice that I'm told are anti-biotic, so ignore their bitter taste. We brought them all back from a colourful Turkish market in London at the weekend along with a box of sultana grapes, dried limes, big bottles of Greek honey, purple figs and sweets from the cutest little Persian shop I've ever seen, all clad with wood. Life is cosy and warm...

I'm joining with ginny for yarn along again today...

...why not come too...