The local artist trading card session takes place this weekend and I am working on a fibre arts theme: some knitting to fit onto a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 card. Already I’ve knit a small sample of a Japanese basketweave pattern and this was pleasing to create; now I wanted something a little more unstructured, a little more – playful. The sleek wooden needles with tops that remind me of chess pieces – oh, yes, Brittany ones – ‘called’ to me from the ‘bunch’ in the needle basket. With these in hand, fingers playing over the smoothness, the lightness, the size, the choice of yarn was next. It wasn’t much of a decision: a ball of hemp twine. The rocking chair in front of the glass doors in front of the bird feeders and the clouds dripping dry rain provided my seat on the world. Cast on eight stitches. Knit a row or two. Knit a few stitches from right to left, then knit two stitches from left to right without turning the work; felt right so repeated it a few times. Continued across row. Turned the work. On way back did the back’n’forth knitting again. Twice. A row or two or three of plain knitting. Size looked right for the card. Cast off. Put it on a white card. Looked okay. Put it on a piece of ivory woven fabric. Looked better. Have to decide how to attach it. Having fun.