Some knee socks for Julia, Jitterbug in "Fruit Coulis", with a K3, P1, K1, P1 rib, offset by three at the cuff, as in the Yarrow Ribbed Socks from Knitting Vintage Socks, but with a standard slip stitch heel and wedge toe.
The color is even more vivid in real life, I assure you.
I have been listening to a new album of mine, "Le Jour du Poisson" by Thomas Fersen. He has a song each on two of the French Putomayo albums, "French Playground" and "Paris", both of which albums we listen to quite a lot — this is how I heard of him. I find his music fascinating — melodic and quirky, intelligently crafted, with each song having a character completely its own and yet still recognizably "Fersen". One song has a klezmer-y feel, another salsa, one a rather thrilling tango, one a lovely lilting piano and orchestra accompaniment that makes it almost a lullaby, another has a rather formal brass band intro and then sweeps in with an unexpectedly charming lounge-singer feel. Fersen’s voice is rough and smoky — very Gauloise. I suspect that Fersen’s music might bear comparisons to Tim Finn’s, also quirky, melodic, and highly intelligent. Alas, that I do not speak French! for I am somewhat dismayed that I understand very little of Fersen’s lyrics — one of the things I appreciate deeply about Tim Finn is that his lyrics are so interesting (and they rhyme, always for me a sign that the writer has given a lot of thought to what he wants to say) — but this is certainly my own limitation, and not Fersen’s!
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