Sunday Snippet: Finn has a very special skill
Today’s Sunday Snippet is a bit of wishful thinking on my part. I’m tidying my yarn stash and planning the next project(s)… and having Finn here would have saved me a mountain of time.
If you knit, you probably know what I’m talking about. You’ve picked up stunning yarns here and there, but now you need to decide what to turn them into. And I cannot count the number of times I’ve started to knit a jumper or a blanket or even socks before the deciding that the yarn didn’t suit the pattern after all.
You can find out why Finn could have saved me much unravelling in today’s Sunday snippet, which is under the image.
“How about the lady with the dog?” Leo pointed across the road where an older woman walked a spaniel.
“Lace shawl,” Finn said after a short appraisal. “In a mix of colours. She lives alone, but isn’t lonely, and has many good memories. A lace shawl would be like a hug from dreams.”
Leo smiled, enchanted with Finn’s way of classifying people by garments, yarns, and colours. “The young woman with the baby in the pushchair?”
“A sturdy miniskirt in chocolate orange.”
“Chocolate orange? What sort of a colour is that? Murky brown?”
Finn laughed. “It’s not a single colour. It’s a colourway. The yarn’s mostly dark chocolate and every so often it runs a stretch of bright orange. It looks gorgeous knitted up. I’d knit it lengthwise, maybe with a subtle pattern running across.”
They were on their way to view the empty store on the High Street, and instead of the apprehension Leo had expected to feel, they were both in tearing high spirits. As if there’d been something apart from tea in the pot they’d shared with their sandwiches.
Leo didn’t mind. He’d take this floaty feeling, the belief that he could do anything, in place of overtired drudgery any day of the week. He’d felt drawn to Finn in the pub because of the quiet delight on his face while he’d sat in a corner and plied his needles. Finn openly laughing and enjoying the sunshine was an even more striking sight. Leo resolved there and then not to lose sight of Finn, whether they rented a shop together or not.
A woman waited outside the store’s front door, dressed in heeled boots and a smart grey coat to ward off the November chill.
Finn grinned when Leo nudged his side. “A soft cowl in lilac lace or 4-ply. Or a drop stitch pattern in dark grey and lilac. That would look lovely, too.”
“Do you think she’s here to show us around?”
“Oh.” Finn’s expression switched from delighted to apprehensive in a blink. “I hope she likes us. I didn’t… I didn’t precisely dress before I came out to go to the post office.”
“I’m sure it’s fine.”
“Easy for you to say. You’re smart as sixpence.”
Today’s Sunday Snippet story, Cosy & Chill, is available from my store and everywhere books are sold.
Cosy & Chill
