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June 26, 2006
France here I come
We had a great weekend watching butterflies in the northeastern part of the Netherlands, right next to the German border. In fact, the first two pictures where taken in Germany.
These are two Cranberry Fritillaries [Veenbesparelmoervlinder] spending some quality time together. These are very rare in the Netherlands, so we went to Germany to spot them.
This is a moth [nachtvlinder], an Elephant hawk moth [Groot avondrood] to be precise. A really beautiful one, it could be a source of inspiration for a pair of socks. Mmmm... I even think I have colors like these in my stash... maybe a bit of an odd combination though.
Tomorrow we are leaving for France. Thank you all so much for your holiday wishes. In an attempt to remove all the spam comments I got over the weekend, I managed to delete two real comments. Sorry about that, Saskia and Froukje!
I just found out about a new, very special knitalong. Carla found this beautiful knitting sampler [stekenlap] from the beginning of the 20th century, shown in this picture together with a stocking:
The sampler has 29 stitch patterns, which Carla is decyphering one by one and adding them to the Yahoogroup she created for the knitalong, which is starting on the 1st of July. There are already 190 members in the group! Everyone can knit use the stitch patterns to create their own sampler and discuss it in the Yahoogroup. Such a lovely idea! I won't be participating right now, but I wanted to pass on the information.
The Yahoogroup is called KnitalongSamplerM. You can also find out more about the project on the blog of the Dutch Stitch 'n Bitch groups over here (in Dutch).
Have a great time everyone!
Posted by saartje at June 26, 2006 11:09 PM
Comments
Have a very nice trip in france ..i'll go too in a few days .good hollidays..see you next
Posted by: monique/Engalnd at June 26, 2006 11:50 PM
Bedankt Saartje! En dan mag je nú op vakantie...... heel veel plezier! ;-)
Carla M
PS Vergeet je breiwerk niet in je koffer te stoppen.
Posted by: Carla Meijsen at June 27, 2006 8:25 AM
Have a wonderful trip.
The colors of that mothe are not odd to me at all. The would make the PERFECT socks!
Posted by: Siri at June 27, 2006 9:41 AM
Happy Holiday in France , I hope you'll enjoy it!
Posted by: fleur at June 27, 2006 11:52 AM
That's going to be an amazing knitalong! Thanks for the tip--I'm off to check it out. Meanwhile, have a lovely time in France. Eat lots of cheese and drink lots of wine for me. :-)
Posted by: Beth S. at June 27, 2006 4:35 PM
The colours of the moth are a perfect combination (hat/mittens?). Bon vacance
Posted by: ajoursteek at June 27, 2006 10:22 PM
I met the same moth type in our cottage garden last year and I tried to take a photo but it was too dim. Yeah, they are beautiful!
Have a great time! ^^
Posted by: Joanna at June 28, 2006 1:30 AM
