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Counting Down
Posted on | March 30, 2010 | No Comments
I’ll pick up my knitting needles again this weekend for the first time in a month. PT is helping with the flexibility in my hand, and I prefer to believe that knitting will only supplement the progress I’ve made despite all indications to the contrary. First up, finish the last sleeve of my February Lady Sweater, [...]
Shall I Compare Thee To An Uncorrected Proof?
Posted on | March 23, 2010 | No Comments
What could be more exciting than the promise of a peach harvest this summer, even after a heavy pruning to minimize the damage of broken branches? What could be more delightful than finding this riot of California poppies in the garden this morning at the same spot where only a few days ago, there was only this [...]
Counting the Days
Posted on | March 22, 2010 | No Comments
Counting the days until I can knit again, that is. But to tide me over until then, I’ve been admiring the stash enhancements I found at Stitches West at the end of February. Pigeonroof Studios figured large in my acquisitions; the color “Vitals” in particular lured me into Krista’s booth – it’s a saturated, dramatic red [...]
Coming Soon – Brave New Knits!
Posted on | March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Is it a book yet? Not quite. However… Not only is my book now available for pre-order on Amazon.com, but late last week I received copies of the galley! The galley is an advance uncorrected proof that shows the size and contents of the book (but not the project photos, charts, schematics, or actual layout). The galley is [...]
A Wave Is As Good As a Salute
Posted on | March 15, 2010 | No Comments
I’m not sure what’s up with the military references the last post or two, but I’ve been pre-occupied with hands lately because of my recent surgery. I got the stitches taken out of my right hand today, so I couldn’t be happier. In two weeks, with any luck I’ll be knitting again – once the physical therapy has [...]
All-Volunteer Army
Posted on | March 12, 2010 | No Comments
An all-volunteer army of flowers blooming, that is. Now that the rain has stopped and the sun has come out, the garden has exploded. Much of what I’m finding was planted years ago… gotta love those perennials. Each year the mounds of low-growing blooms spread more widely across the ground. The daffodils and narcissi bulbs divide themselves underground so that [...]
Pyrus communis
Posted on | March 7, 2010 | No Comments
That’s Bartlett pear to you and me, and last week we had to take down one of the two remaining pear trees on our property. It had succumbed to scale and fire blight over the last few years despite all efforts to restore it to good health. Our neighborhood used to be acres of pear orchards, [...]
Hello From No-Knitting Hell
Posted on | March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
With my right hand bandaged to resemble a catcher’s mitt, you’d think my entire hand had been spectacularly mangled in our blender rather than what are probably a total of ten stitches and a little bruising here and there on the two fingers that were fixed. Given this state of affairs, I obviously cannot knit. Nope, cannot knit [...]
Citronella
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments
I never got a chance to introduce my completed version of Hilary Smith Callis’s Citron shawl, as featured in the latest issue of Knitty (Winter, 2009). I guess you could call my version, which was completed in the final hours of the run-up to my finger surgery (when I wasn’t stirring a gigantic copper cauldron [...]