Side garden

Garden Notes

We’re finally set to have some sort of wintery precipitation tomorrow, and it’s gotten a little colder.     Seemed as good a reason as any to finally put the garden away.    So, this morning, things went from the above… to the below.     Feels like a crazy end of an era. Things

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Cabled Dad hat

Knitting Notes

Pattern: Cabled Dad Hat by Alexis WinslowYarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes del Campo in the Wellies Heather colorway, and just a touch of the Blue Moon Gaea in CorbyNeedles: Size 6 and 7 circs, and size 7 DPNs I managed to finish the three hat trifecta on Christmas Eve!   Both BILs and

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Bough hat

Knitting Notes

Pattern: Bough by Leila RaabeYarn: Classic Elite MountainTop Vista in the Peat colorwayNeedles: Size 5 and 7 circs, and size 7 DPNs. It’s weird how much the differences in a pattern eat yarn.    I used the same yarn, and the same needles for this hat as the last one I made, and yet I

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