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Sunnyside Done

The right sleeve was completed last evening and this morning the buttons sewn on.  Then my Sunnyside took a quick plunge and an ever so brief time in the dryer and then viola, Sunnyside is complete.
Tenacity on the left and the fully complete Sunnyside on the right
As I continue to do some much needed spring cleaning, I found my Pantone - 35 Inspirational Color Palettes book.  In it I found a set of colours called City Haze.  It is described this way:  Silvered skyscrapers and misty parks suggest a cosmopolitan palette of smoky tones.  Use these colors to compose a timeless and elegant daytime look, or a living room designed for witty conversation and evening entertaining.  Look how closely the colours from my Sunnyside match up with the four colours of City Haze.  BTW the colours from left to right are Polished Gray (Pantone Cool Gray 9), City Sky (Pantone Cool Gray 3), Spring Haze (Pantone 4545) and Early Olive (Pantone 451).  The olive green is the least prevalent of my colour palette for Sunnyside, but when I put the leftover yellow yarn next to it, there seems to be olive tones that pop.

City Haze
Luckily this cosmopolitan palette is headed to another cosmopolitan location.  Whether baby or parents will know the colours are designed for witty conversation and evening entertainment remains to been seen.

On a completely new topic, how able a knitting rocking chair?  I told Paul I could really use one of these.  As I sit rocking and knitting with my hands I can put other parts of my body to use knitting a toque, or hat above my head.


Apparently the University of Art and Design in Langenthal, Switzerland arranges for graduating students to put on an exhibition.  This rocking/knitting chair designed by Lausanne Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex was part of a recent exhibit.  Click here to see how it works in a 60 second video.  The efficiency is intriguing although one might tire of being able to only make toques.  If you'd like to invest 9 minutes, watch this video which shows several other items exhibited.  It does start with the rocking chair but moves on to several other low-tech ways to make stuff.  Ah, human creativity is amazing.
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