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Gyroscopic Cardigan – Pattern Coming Soon!
Posted on | May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Gyroscopic Cardigan is on the blocking board (taking forever to dry, I might add), and I am writing up more notes on the pattern draft for my test knitter. The pattern should be ready to launch by mid-to late-June. I still need to choose the perfect buttons for this project, which will actually snap [...]
Future Food
Posted on | May 3, 2011 | No Comments
Just before leaving home, I planted the vegetable garden. My back may never forgive me. Now that the weather has finally turned the corner (high 70′s all day today), those seedlings will actually get enough heat and sunlight to grow. I planted three different varieties of peppers, eight different kinds of tomatoes (three of which [...]
Baby Cardigan, WIP It Good!
Posted on | April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
Although at first I thought I’d make a simple stand-up collar for this little cardigan, I was having so much fun working strategic increases (along the center back of the collar so it would spread a bit more and lie a bit flatter) that ultimately I worked collar points to frame the top button that [...]
April WIP
Posted on | April 2, 2011 | No Comments
I really hoped to post on April 1st, but the day got away from me. The only “fool-ish” thing about it was when I went to a lunch get-together for a friend’s birthday, only to discover that the guest of honor didn’t show. Her daughter had gone into labor the night before, and my friend [...]
Say Hello To My Little Friend March
Posted on | March 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
It’s beginning to look a lot like spring in my part of the country… Of course, we’re being revisited by the torrential downpours tonight through tomorrow… So I shall have to enjoy these glimmers of things to come while I have them… Hope you’ve enjoyed them, too!
Vacations Are For Fun…
Posted on | July 11, 2010 | No Comments
…but there’s no place like home. My knitting is off-camera for the moment, so nothing new to share there. While I’m away from the blog, thought I’d treat you to a few photos snapped in the garden just before I left. Peaches still hard as rocks, but should be ripening by the time we return. [...]
Agapanthus means “Goose” in Gardenese
Posted on | July 1, 2010 | No Comments
Every summer, among the dozens of agapanthus buds stirring in the front garden, we get a few of these mutants: But this summer it’s a bonanza. Every once in a while I am struck by the similarity between plant and animal life forms, and these gooseneck agapanthus buds crack me up. I do the same double-take when [...]
I’m Ba-a-ack…!
Posted on | April 22, 2010 | No Comments
So you’ve probably noticed that I have finally resurfaced after a couple of weeks of radio silence (just what IS radio silence, anyway? I’ve always wondered…). Was off traveling to see my aged and not-terribly-healthy parents, and to take them to visit my daughter at college. She (my darling daughter, that is) was performing in a [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]