Florence grows

I’m amazed by the yardage of the Cotton Gima – the first ball took me through 2 good size swatches and more than 50% of the back of the tunic. This is soothing stockinette at it’s best, and a bit more visually enjoyable knitting than tactile, although my fingers are intrigued by something different too. [...]

What’s for Dinner?

One of my favorite things this spring (I guess the season has finally caught up with the temperature here though – Happy Summer!) has been eating from our own garden. Last year was our first experimenting with growing food – We started “small” with tomatoes, squash & cucumbers, peppers and herbs, and we learned an [...]

The Bobble Sweater take 2

Now, I know how some people feel about bobbles. And I really can’t even verbalize why, but I love them – I just do. As a result, I fell in love with Bobble Blue within seconds of receiving my 2006 Spring edition of IK and began knitting it not long after. After a delay due [...]

The cat came back

Bump, bump bump. It has been a slightly turbulent around here of late, but though related this bump ends happily and therefore warrants sharing I think! A woman who meant the world to me had a cat. A not-too-bright, but very sweet cat, who was mightily attached to her and she to it. When she [...]

Lavender

Sometimes, colors come in groups around here. Last week, green & white, this week it’s lavender: I have no lavender-colored garden creatures to show you, but I hope the real thing will suffice! A swatch – which you may think you have seen before – but truely, this one’s new. I have no idea what [...]

Green & White

Green and White seem to be staples around here lately in life and knitting – I don’t mind one bit – Green is one of my favorite colors, and here’s one particularly brilliant hue! One of our garden friends allowing me to approach for an extra close shot before taking exception to my intrusion. Sorry [...]