Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
These irises started blooming about the time the tree peony blossoms died back. Now they’re both faded and the summer flowers are coming on.
And peas! I have peas! OK, maybe only enough for one meal if you have a tiny appetite, but these make me happy. They’re bigger than this now and I’ve been pulling [...]
Posted in Knitting, Life, Uncategorized, garden on May 26th, 2010
ETA: to add links I was too lazy to do yesterday and clarify a point here and there.
It seems like a century since I was last here.
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The travels for health and pleasure are finished for a while. Jack has been checked out tip to toe and the upshot is he’ll be a woodworker [...]
Shepherd’s Harvest Festival was cold, soggy and fun. It’s a mid-sized festival, big enough to have a good selection of vendors in four barns, small enough that you can comfortably do it in one day and cover pretty much everything you want to see. The crowds were good but not massive, perhaps because [...]
It’s been an incredibly busy couple of weeks and I’ll get around to a recap next week. The last post was about the garden and there’s been much progress made. It still looks mostly like piles of dirt but there are green things planted and hopefully some of them will grow.
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Tomorrow my sisters and I [...]
Remember this? My Laminaria shawl made last year with Misti Alpaca Lace, 100% Baby Alpaca.
Well, look at this:
This is from the MOPACA alpaca show that I went to a few weeks ago. I entered Laminaria in their fiber arts competition and it took first place in its category. Second place went to another Laminaria done [...]
Posted in Knitting, Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2010
Bad hair day
This weekend was the annual MOPACA show at Hale Arena and despite the dire forecasts for treacherous travel by the weather bunnies, I skipped out of the house Saturday morning to commune with some fiber on the hoof. Who can resist an arena full of these funny-looking, gentle, humming creatures?
Apparently most people. There [...]
Posted in Knitting on Mar 18th, 2010
When the postman delivered our mail held during last week’s trip, there was a package that I should have remembered to photograph for you. But since I knew what was inside, I wasted no time ripping it open. Besides, you know what it looked like anyway: a soft and squishy priority mail envelope, sealed with [...]
What do you do when you’re away from home, staying in a dreary residential hotel and you need to entertain a group? For various reasons you don’t want to meet at a restaurant and the kitchen isn’t really intended for cooking. Here’s all you need for a quick, low-stress get-together.
First, find a good supermarket and [...]
Posted in Knitting on Mar 6th, 2010
Now that sunlight has returned to Middle Earth* I’ve been able to get a decent shot of Finished Object (FO) #2. (Note the Japanese maple has made real progress since I last photographed it. It even has tiny little flowers.)
For years I’ve been setting aside a small bin containing yarns that were too special for [...]
Posted in Knitting on Mar 1st, 2010
My head is full of projects these days. I’ve finished a couple things that have been sitting around for months (and years) so I’m “allowed” to start something new.
I’ve been looking through patterns and pulling yarn out of stash, making swatches for this and that. I’d show you a picture of my knitting area (the [...]
