Happy New Year! I hope you began as you mean to go on. For us, New Year’s Day was spent with the (grown) kids. They came for brunch (cinnamon rolls, cheesy scrambled eggs, mimosas, fake bacon) and then we headed out for a visit with a troll.
This is Ole Bolle, one of a series of oversized trolls by Thomas Dambo. This is the only one in the Portland area; the rest of this series are around the Puget Sound in Washington. But there are over 100 around the world!
He’s made of recycled wooden pallets, and he’s BIG.
I love how he’s peering into the house, looking for snacks.
Don’t look now!
We extended our outing with a 3 mile walk along the Rock Creek Greenway, a wetlands area. Lots of ducks and evidence of beavers (gnawed tree trunks and limbs).
Wouldn’t this plumage pattern make a great sweater yoke?
A little bit of knitting, and the day was complete. How did you start 2024?
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I counted how many skeins of yarn I knit last year (mostly Malabrigo Noventa) & it shocked me! It was 173! My husband was proud as all projects were given away & no comment on expense!
173 skeins? That’s fantastic! I have my yarn label cha
Happy New Year! I love that troll! He has such a warm expression that I can’t imagine being frightened by his appearance in the window.
HNY to you, my much-admired friend Michele !!
I LOVE the trolls. Of course he’s Danish: I’ve come to believe that the Danes are some kind of super race. 🙂
Michele, I think it was Kay at MDK who wrote that the feather design on Flaco, the NYC eagle-owl, would make a great pattern. Maybe we’ll see more feather-inspired designs this year.
Cheers and happy New Year!
You’re right, Flaco is an inspiration! This duck reminds me of the Dreyma sweater th
Lovely way to start 2024! That is a cool statue 🙂