The Spring-Summer-Autumn Season has begun!  It is warm and bright and leafy and blossomy and little buggy things are cruising around and birds are out and about looking busy….And I am out on my deck enjoying it all 🙂

Here in the Pacific NW, the S-S-A Season lasts about 5 months (the Autumn-Winter-Spring Season lasts 7 months) and is so very welcome after the chilly-rainy-gray that has kept us huddled and cuddled indoors.  Now, the out-of-doors is vibrant and hospitable again — and even tho there will be rainy days and chilly gray days in the weeks ahead, they are just not the same as the A-W-S Season ones.  If you live here, you know what I mean.

This dramatic seasonal shift usually permeates me to the depths of my knitting bag — leading me to scoop up any leftover Winter Knitting and bury it in a box (to be dug out again once the dramatic seasonal shift to the A-W-S Season hits toward the end of September).  I then lovingly liberate my unfinished Summer Knitting from its Winter slumber and crack open the cotton and linen yarns I ordered for new Summer projects — and the Summer Knitting begins.

It is a beautiful cycle and brilliant when it works (i.e., when I promptly finish the now-seasonal pieces).  And I confess that it is simply how I roll.  I am a seasonal knitter.  I know it and I embrace it.  

Except I have sort of hit a snag this year.  I just am not ready to set aside the Winter Knitting.  

Even tho I know the Summer Knitting is restless, fretting away in its box.  And even tho I know that if I have any hope of having completing it all (or any of it!) in time to wear this season, I had better get going on it soon.  Even tho I have some stunning new cotton tape yarn destined for lace knitting that is cooing at me….Yet, here I am with my wool brioche poncho and my thick wool sweater and my thin wool sweater and an alpaca cable piece.  Crazy!

Okay, I confess that I did bust out my Mariners shawl project on the Opening Day of Baseball.  And I have begun knitting a linen top with yarn I bought recently.  But other than that, I am pretty happy with my Winter Knitting — even on a day like today!  Crazy!

Sarah (ever practical!) says “Well, then, finish your Winter Knitting!”  Sound advice, under the circumstances.  Surely, I can celebrate the season and the sun with some pretty wool and some bright yellow alpaca yarn!