#truva

I'd say in general,

My grandmother's family traveled from greece to turkey when she was just a baby so i really dont have any ties to greece at all. Not the language nor the culture. And i won't stand here and claim to be greek in any way because I'm really not. But it is what got me interested in learning about the history which in turn lead me down the rabbit hole of learning about ancient greece. (And with it parts of the mythology)

A couple years ago i took a trip to Ephesus (Efes, izmir) and in the future if given the opportunity I'd love to go see the remains of Troy next. (Truva, Hissarlik)

(The obsession with -) Epic kind of came out of nowhere (cough Jay's tiktok) and now I'm scrambling to get my hands on a translation of the Odyssee and the iliad.

So this is the Cascade Hat by Rachel Brockman. She loves nature, and appreciates the flow of things, and it shows in everything she creates.

This particular hat that the model is wearing, I knitted myself.  Last fall this beautiful new yarn from Italy called Truva arrived, and I fell in love.  Truva is part cotton and part cashmere, and the fibers take the dye differently to create the color you see, which is somehow both rustic and polished. I was just itching to make something with it.  I asked Rachel if there was anything that I could do for the team in this yarn, and she graciously wrote this one ball pattern up, which we’ve made free on our site.

Really, knitting this was just as much for me as it was for the team, since I was spending a lot of time in a hospital room with a loved one. It helped me stay settled to have a beautiful project in a luxury yarn to make.

My loved one is fine now, having made a better recovery than anyone - even me - expected. And at the end of that time, I was still in love with Truva.