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  Inspired by the beautiful crewel embroidery of Lene of Dances with Wool, I sent for color cards from Renaissance Dyeing. My package arrived from France in record time and the colors are just what I was hoping for. I'll take pictures tomorrow in daylight. Unfortunately, our mail gets delivered late in the afternoon, these days around 6PM, can you believe that? But it's a small price to pay for being out of the city.

I never thought of crewel embroidery until I discovered Lene's blog. Her work is truly inspiring and I have the perfect project for my first little attempt: my recently finished red cashmere/merino socks. Before you think that I had planned this all along, I have a confession. I've been knitting in the evenings while watching TV and in less than perfect lighting conditions, so I only discovered that I had a booboo in one of the socks when it was already completely done. I'll take pictures of that tomorrow as well. I'm going to think of a little embroidery as a way to cover up the problem and at the same time make the socks a little more special. After all, all my socks are very plain and can stand a little umph.