craftgrrl | Some Knitting stuff...

My brother got married yesterday, and I knitted part of their wedding gift. I made them "The Pillow of Sei Shonagon" from the Knitalong book.

The whole pillow.

A close up of the text.

A close up of the couple's names and the wedding date

For the text, I used two different poems:

I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall. The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstasies of desire are working for a larger and finer growth. Not always shall you be what you are now. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you and therefore I love you.

–Carl Sandburg

For one human being to love another human being; this is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us – the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. Loving at first does not mean merger, surrender and uniting with another person.
Love is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in ourselves, to become world in ourselves for the sake of another person. Love is a great, demanding claim on us, something that chooses us and calls us to vast distances.
–Rainer Rilke

A while ago, I finished a pair of Hedera--my first pair of socks. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be; for some reason, I thought socks were ridiculously difficult.

Hedera on my foot.

Knitting Hedera made me realize that I love socks. So I've made another pair of socks. These Dragonfly Socks were a quick and easy knit and I'm really happy with how they turned out: