Especially when the green is “Island Moss” Euroflax linen from Louet. Since Daisy Daisy was damp but the Tour knitting had to go on, I cast on this new project on Sunday. Thanks to Vy, I have a copy of Jane Waller’s A Stitch in Time: Knitting and Crochet Patterns, 1920-1949 on loan… it would have cost me $75 to purchase this book locally, so I was extremely grateful when Vy offered to mail me hers! Knitters are the most generous people, aren’t they? I’d locked onto the design called “With the New Cowl Neck Line” after seeing Vy’s beautiful version on Ravelry, I had store credit to score some expensive Euroflax, and this may well be my very favorite color, so everything was perfectly aligned.

In the background: a knitter goes in for her first steek, to general excitement!

Once again I’m finding that in coming across to WordPress the photographs have gone a little whacky in color. There’s too much yellow here, so picture the green a little deeper, a little more vibrant. You know what it really reminds me of? That knock-out green dress Keira Knightley wore in “Atonement” (a movie I didn’t actually like—par for my experience of Joe Wright’s work—despite the costume department’s kicking a**… but I recommend Ian McEwan’s novel). Since the design has such a cumbersome name, I’m calling this top Cecilia as a nod to the Cecilia Tallis character. Maybe I’ll have it finished in time to wear to Sock Summit!