Find Me
Posted on | April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’m gonna get you, sucka!! There’s always an element of magic in the spring garden, where from one day to the next I can watch this: slowly unfurl itself into this: and finally, reaching its full glory, into this: Early response to the Guinevere Evening Cardi has been very positive on Ravelry, inspiring me to [...]
Guinevere!
Posted on | April 22, 2009 | No Comments
In the annals of NaKniSweMoDo, it can be said that I completed the fourth project in less than four months, ahead of schedule. I present herewith my Guinevere Evening Cardigan, an original design using Sundara Yarn’s Aran Silky Merino in Green Tea from her 2008-09 Sweater Club. This cardigan, with its visible waist shaping, elbow-length [...]
Alcatraz, Sausalito, and Lappert’s, Oh My!
Posted on | April 19, 2009 | No Comments
My daughter’s friend Sophie visited from Boston over the weekend, and we took advantage of her presence to be tourists in our own town, showing her the sights of San Francisco. Starting off with dim sum at Yank Sing is never a bad idea, though the girls were a bit flustered when little plates of [...]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Knit Blog
Posted on | April 15, 2009 | No Comments
Which is that this blog seems to be rather often about gardening as well. And now that I have a new camera which downloads photos differently than my old one (that died a slow death over the last six months), I’ve been “losing” files of knitting photos that were intended to dress up my most [...]
A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose…
Posted on | April 14, 2009 | No Comments
A rose is a rose is a rose… but even though they come back every spring, I’m amazed all over again when the first ones of the season appear. These are Joseph’s Coat, a colorful climber that will finally make its way, I fervently hope, onto the fence that protects the front rose garden from [...]
Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad
Posted on | April 12, 2009 | No Comments
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, LILY AND HERB!! My parents are celebrating their fifty-third wedding anniversary today, and although the last few years have presented them with more than a few health challenges, I think they’d say that the good still outweighs the bad. They are still living in the house they moved into more than 25 years [...]
Very Bad
Posted on | April 9, 2009 | No Comments
Yes, I’ve been bad. Very, very bad. Not a single post in more than a week bad. And it’s not as if there’s nothing to report. There’s the usual garden activity – even more than usual now that the latest week of rain has ended and sunshine is bringing all the blooms out. The last [...]
Beantown and Back
Posted on | April 2, 2009 | No Comments
In the last five days, I have visited six states on the east coast while researching a big secret project. First I flew from San Francisco to Washington, DC, where I was supposed to make a connection to New York to visit my parents. Instead, my connecting flight was cancelled due to terrible weather in [...]