Mystery Knit Along March Blocks - left: slip stitch texture right: intarsia colour workSlip stitchThere was so much going on in March that I barely had time to post the two blocks for that month. The blue slip stitch texture still required counting stitches but fortunately only in uniform sets of four and after a few repeats, it was easy to read the knitting and not have to worry too much.

Source: Basquiat to Delaney ... Paris Noir at the Pompidou CentreI read about this exhibition in the paper and thought that I must go - I'd missed Sly and Robbie playing with Nils Petter Milvaer, I'd missed the 50th Anniversary of something to do with Picasso: I must go.

Source: I cleansed myself of morning pages ... but how did it feel? by Martin SketchleyEvery so often I'd hear about The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. I'd never heard anyone gush about it, but a lot of people seemed to have heard of it and knew what I was talking about. It's a journey to discover/recover your creativity with a couple of tools: Morning Pages and the Artist Date.

Source) Hive Power Up Day hosted by @hivebuzzWell, after a couple of months powering down waiting for a peak higher than the ones we've seen (I'm not greedy, 0.65 USD would have done), I have admitted defeat and powered-up.

Unblocked, unfinished samples from the workshops. On the left, two intarsia samples using cotton 4-ply and Kidsilk Haze, designs inspired by architecture. Middle (Alpaca Soft DK) and right (cotton 4-ply), samples using i-cord cast on, cast off, and in various patterns in the body of each sample.

On Saturday, Rowan launched their Spring Summer Collection in Magazine no 77, together with several smaller collections. The magazine has two main stories - lazy days of summer and a retrospective for Martin Storey, one of their most-loved designers. The lazy days of summer collection is organised into relaxed mornings, daytime and evening, each with their own spread.