Fingerless Mittens Round One...

For my #1 son....
I used Red Heart acrylic here...god what a mistake. my fingers are BURNING. On to pair #2. I'm going to use some yarn I know I posted about a while back...lemme see if I can find it.

River Rocks is DONE!

I spent most of Saturday on this beauty. The hardest part of this project has been the marriage of beads and cotton. If there is any little tiny snag in the yarn, that the beads will not go over...You have to remove the rest of the beads that you have strung....Cut, tie, and reconnect the yarn below the knot...after you've restrung all of those beads you just removed. Ugh. I had to do this 2 or 3x.

It's finished now, and on it's way to my Mother's house.

River Rocks Scarf

Mom signed us up for this class. The technique is oh-so-simple but it was a fun outing anyway. I took off on my own "pattern" I'm not following the charts, but putting 'rocks' in willy nilly where I feel like.

Silver Belle is still alive!

Yep, still plugging away on this beauty. So far I have a sleeve done (left) a sleeve/yoke/neck shaping done (center) and 13 rows (right, 480 stitches per row!) done on the peplum. It's hard to see the detail because of my crummy photos...but the peplum is nothing short of PERFECT..i have not made one single error in those bazillion little cables. Yay!

Silver Belle is still alive....

Green!

Wow. It's been a while...not much knitting going on at my house...however I did just start the second sleeve of Silver Belle...it's going really quick, going to need a longer circ to tackle the peplum....so I'm putting it off.

Anyway...this is what I've been up to. For anyone who doesn' tknow...I tried my hand at market gardening for three years. Vegetables, herbs and cut flowers. It's been a long time since I've had the space or the DESIRE to play in the dirt again... Haylee planted some flowers too, unfortch, some of her pansies feel prey to a late May frost.

This is a new bed that I dug last year. So far it is home to (left to right) delphinium, tulips and hyacinths, wormwood, dead nettle, lambs ear and shasta daisies.

This is a new garden too, up against the neighbors fence. On the left is bee balm, evening primrose, bachelor buttons, shasta daisies and some kind of scented ground geranium. On the right are seeds for all kinds of herbs. Rosemary, creeping thyme, curly parsely, and also two varieties of sunflowers....one gets 7' tall and one gets 4-6' tall.

This is my veggie garden, zucchini, summer squash, patty pan, kale, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes (cherry and slicer) and basil.

This is my winter warmth...stacked by my sweetie! (I did about 1/3 of a cord and then got banished from any more stacking. Who said chivalry is dead?

Isn't this pretty? In the flower box is Dusty Miller, Petunia and Vinca Vine, below are orange and purple day lilies, and a big globe of sedum in front...sort of shaded by the lilies. This is at the end of the woodshed, so it's the first thing you see when you walk out the back door.

We took the leftover schtuff from the wood pile that was too small for kindling and used it to "mulch" the hedges and baby hosta out front....it looks so nice!!!

3 more rows!

3 more rows and sleeve one is complete. There are errors in the seed stitch rows and in the bauble rows, but by the time I recognized them it was too late to turn back.