The Night After a Day's Walk

That's the title of the first chapter of book two: The Fall, Les Miserables.

I'm not sure if after a day's walk, the night is a relief or a perpetuation of the struggles of man. After the toil and struggle of a hard worked, cruel life there is the cover of darkness in death. For Jean Valjean, maybe, it is a relief. To be cloaked in the folds of night; to be nameless and sheltered.

Have you ever knitted with black yarn? If you should step into any random knit shop you will notice an absence of dark to black colors. Maybe knitters prefer bold, bright hues to wrap their necks in? Well, it's really damn hard to knit with dark colors. I'm working on a scarf knit with Malabrigo, with one of their variegated yarns, and there are patches of black colors that pool sometimes and it's easy to see how hard it would be to knit with if one were to have to pay attention to their stitches. Luckily, my scarf is knit in a striped texture - garter stitch and seed stitch. Pretty simple. Now that I've uploaded this picture here, the darks don't look so dark. Dang flash! I swear, they're darker than they look!