I’ve had a busy pair of months, and even though I chose a small project incorporating all three colours into one, I still didn’t find time for it until the last moment.

Just as I expected, the calligraphy is a bit wobbly. It’s not a skill you can just pick up again after two decades without the penwork being a little shaky. I did it twice and had to settle on attempt #2 because my hand was getting cramped.

I found the quote in At Knits End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much. It is attributed to Eugene Ionesco. Having no idea who this guy was, and an inclination to waste some time, I googled his name. He wrote a play called The Bald Soprano consisting of a conversation inspired by the meaningless phrases used in a textbook for teaching English. ‘The ceiling is above’. ‘The floor is below’. That sort of thing. Sounds wierd and amusing. He also painted. A writer who paints and has a wierd sense of humour? Hmm. Sounds familiar. I wonder if he could knit…

Next Project Spectrum colours are brown, orange and purple. I’m all set up with jute, beads and a book for my own macrame revival – that’ll be brown. Then there’s the teracotta air-drying clay to play with – that’ll do for orange. But I have no idea yet what craft I’ll revive for purple.