Category: knitting

  • two pair

    Whew, time sure flies by when you’re out of the house nearly the entire week! Monday, Megan H. and Stacey came by to pick cherries!

    Megan, being the tallest one, was atop the ladder while Stacey kept an eye out. I was in charge of getting bowls and picking gooseberries. It sure goes a lot faster (and more fun) when you’ve got people to pick with!

    Lots and lots of cherries, plus a good amount of gooseberries (going to try my hand at jam).

    Talk about a big bowl of cherries. Megan and Stacey each took some, and I took a big tupperware-full to the party yesterday, where they got eaten (and I gave gave the extras to Megan I.). I’ve still got a whole bunch left though!

    Back to the knitting – I haven’t been doing that much lately, just a bit here and there. I did manage to finish the Lorna’s Laces socks, though.

    I’m digging the slightly longer than my usual ribbing. I did these toe up, short row toe and heel. Maybe 3/4 of a skein each? I was using leftovers.

    What else…oh, the boy and I cooked up a solution to the plying head problem:

    A couple of wooden blocks drilled out by yours truly, plus some metal washers (which had to be drilled out a bit in the middle as well – I left that to him to do). Very secure, and seems to work well, but I’ll have to put it to the test soon!

  • on vacay

    Ahhh, now that’s the stuff. Wake up late, stay inside in the coolness watching Sabrina (the newer version) on tv and spinning some gift yarn, going outside to pick fruit and take photos when the fancy strikes. Lots of photos ahead!

    This is my big sweet cherry tree. Photo taken from the deck, so it’s like a mid-height view. It is *covered* in cherries. Lots of clumps, so it’s hard to show them all, but –

    It’s one of them grafted-together trees, so it’s got different kinds of cherries growing on it – the ones at the top that are looking lovely and dark (and are too high for me to currently get at with an 8-ft ladder) while the ones near the bottom right are the light yellowy kind.

    I think megan h. is coming over tomorrow to pick cherries – and I’ll probably be giving them away to just everyone! Perhaps getting into some cherry preserves making…it’s really too horrible that my boyfriend is allergic to cherries. I’m thinking cherry ice cream (I made dark chocolate ice cream today, with a custard and everything, and it turned out very, very yummy). And then there’s the sour cherry tree as well – pie!

    Raspberry ‘patch’: this is the biggest clump of raspberry bushes, but they’re all around the house – they just keep spreading! Raspberry sorbet, here I come…

    One last garden shot – my container veggie garden, growing quite well. The three in the back are all different kinds of tomatoes. Left to right in the front, eggplant, burgandy beans, carrots, and squash – I know those last ones are little right now, but I know the squash and beans are pretty fast growing. We’ll see.

    In the theme of green and red, some yarn and knitting!

    Wool/silk two ply. Love those greens!

    The start of a handspun sock. Thick-ish (2.5 mm needles) but hey, they’ll be out of my handspun!

  • lost

    I took my wheel down to the store today, and left it there because I also picked up my new bike! Obviously I couldn’t handle getting both home on the subway, so the wheel stayed there.

    I took the wheel down for SnB, and had some lovely fun spinning down at the store. Got through another ply’s worth of merino (it’s pinky-red, and shall be a three ply) and a good amount of South African top. It’s pretty, but no photos – since obviously it’s still at the store!

    And then it started raining. A lot. Inside the store. Stay tuned to Steph, she’ll probably tell the story well. At any rate – we’re used to it leaking, quite a bit actually, but tonight was Bad. Whew. Luckily no yarn was harmed, although some of us came away gross with ceiling water. Ew.

    Anyway, since I don’t have my wheel at home and that’s what I usually do at night in front of the tv, I’m at a bit of a loss. I suppose I’ll have to knit? But what? Oh yeah, that supermerino sweater needs some attention…

    How about some new yarn?

    A bag of shetland to try out, and lonely orphaned skeins of Handmaiden 4ply cashmere and Sock Candy – they’d been sitting and staring at my so long, I just had to get them! You know how it is. I’m going to do some anklets with the Sock Candy (I’m thinking toe up from both ends of the ball the same time – wouldn’t want to run out of yarn) and some wristwarmers out of the cashmere. Mmmm, cashmere.

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