While looking through a little Moleskin notebook in my purse, I found this sketch, from earlier in the winter, done in a waiting room. I like the way it captures something about winter life here in Montreal. The Burmese mountain dog was a guide-dog-in-training, and the young woman seated beyond him was his trainer. He's get up, look around, and then calmly lie down agian, settling his head onto the floor with a resigned sign. I like her layers of wooly sweaters, her oversized satchel, and her fur-lined Sorels. All pretty true to life.
While we're on the subject of things wooly and warm, this hat was my knitting project during the Olympics; I finished it last night. It's a super-easy pattern from The Purl Bee, adapted by me for knitting with two unequal weight yarns - a lightweight brown alpaca and a midnight blue lace-weight merino, both odds and ends from my knitting basket. The resulting hat, knit in a K1 P1 rib, is very stretchy and I think it will even fit underneath my bike helmet for early spring biking, if the snow ever departs!
Speaking of which, the basil is up, and already thinned to one plant per pot!
But by and large I haven't been very productive lately, for a variety of reasons. I'm hoping to get back into the swing of it soon.
Fun drawing!
Posted by: bill | February 19, 2014 at 02:07 PM
I love the way your sketch captures that vignette, the winter wardrobe in action -- or, in that dog's case, in INaction. . . . Quite sure I have that same hat pattern saved somewhere -- it looks like a useful way to use up leftovers.
And ah, the basil -- what a promise of summer lushness!
Posted by: Frances/Materfamilias | February 19, 2014 at 11:14 PM
I will leave others, who are more capable than I am, to comment sensibly on your drawing. I will say only that I was drawn to the dog that lay beyond the drawing, just as our Mol draws me to her.
Posted by: Tom | February 20, 2014 at 09:11 AM
The cap is beautiful! I keep meaning to start knitting. Soon.
Posted by: Rubye Jack | February 20, 2014 at 03:04 PM
Thanks, Bill!
Frances, yes, I liked those little details when I re-viewed the drawing and must have been interested in them at the time, too. Funny how we choose what to leave in or take out.
Tom, thank you, I'm glad it works that way for you.
Hi Rubye -- Thanks for your comments and compliments on the hat! Knitting is really pretty easy, so I hope you do start!
Posted by: Beth | February 20, 2014 at 03:20 PM
I like the drawing too, it captures the waiting room feeling and the personality of the woman and her dog. Is the dog muzzled and if so, why? Is it a rule in Montreal? Or just in waiting rooms?
Posted by: Natalie | February 20, 2014 at 05:09 PM
Good drawing. I envy you your talent. And also the knitting. And your plants. You are a woman of many talents.
Posted by: Hattie | February 21, 2014 at 07:26 PM
Oooh. luscious hat! I love how women wear riotous layers here.
Posted by: Duchesse | February 25, 2014 at 09:07 AM