Amazing Day

Knitting has the power to bring me out of any blues. I like to think knitting has saved my life countless times. It probably happened to you too? If I have my knitting with me, and if I can find at least a brief moment to unwind connect with it, I will have, for sure, an *amazing day*. Miss Babs and I worked together to create this pattern and [yarn collection][1]. It was a beautiful collaboration. We hope you can appreciate the delicacy in this little poem of color and knitting. And speaking of poems, I'd like to include here a poem that I love. It reminds me to appreciate how lucky we are to be living this amazing day, even when skies look dark and gray. *i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes *(i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)* *how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any–lifted from the no of all nothing–human merely being doubt unimaginable You?* *(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)* *e.e. cummings* **FINISHED MEASUREMENTS** 84 inches (210 cm) from side to side and 17½ inches (44 cm) from top to bottom at deepest point. **MATERIALS** Yarn: This yarn is perfect to use a single skein + leftovers of fingering weight yarn. To make it like mine, you will need 1 skein of Yummy 2-ply by Miss Babs (100% merino - 400 y [366 m] / 115 g) and a set of 6 mini-skeins of Yummy 2-ply toes by Miss Babs (100% merino - 133 y [122 m] / 38g) . You will need the following amounts of fingering weight yarn: * MAIN COLOR: 400 yards (366 m). Shown in color Pewter (charcoal) * The set used for all the contrasting colors is called **Amazing Day** and it's currently in Miss Babs' Collections, [here][2]. CONTRASTING COLOR (CC) 1: 52 yards (47m). Shown in color Family (darkest blue). CC 2: 66 yards (60m). Shown in color Friends (medium blue). CC 3: 66 yards (60m). Shown in color Memories (beige). CC 4: 60 yards (55m). Shown in color Laughter (off-white). CC 5: 66 yards (60m). Shown in color Sharing (baby pink). CC 6: 75 yards (68m). Shown in color Together (dusty pink). Needles: US 4 (3.5mm) needles. Other notions: Tapestry needle, blocking pins or wires. **GAUGE** 17 st and 44 rows to 4” (10cm) in garter st on US 4 (3.5 mm) needles after blocking. Gauge is not crucial for this project, but changes might result in a different yardage requirement. [1]: https://www.missbabs.com/collections/amazing-day [2]: https://www.missbabs.com/collections/amazing-day