Reclaiming some remnants of my former life at a yarn shop. Reclaiming the original meaning of a rainbow - a divine Promise, not human pride. Reclaiming the joy I found once in knitting. When my local yarn shop closed, one of the things I inherited was a plethora of small-yardage color samples. I didn't know what I would possibly do with them. Fair isle came up several times; that would have been lovely but I didn't want the planning, especially when the yardage was inconsistent. So I put it in a bag. Skip to 2017, I was working on this Koigu Oriental Jacket (below) and the construction struck me as something that would work well with the bits of yarn. For this blanket, every square starts with a new color and when that runs out, I finish it with black. For the black, I started with half a skein of Cascade Heritage Silk in solid black. I wish I had sought out more of it to do the whole blanket. I found some black ish sock yarns, which t