Yeah, I may have gone a little crazy with the Pookies this week. I finished the last of these new three last night. Let’s see, they involve three different kinds of Cascade 220, Knitpicks Merino Style, Mission Falls 1624 Wool, and the Quince and Company Lark I’m using for the faces. One of the Cascade […]
So this weekend, I finally got to try out the ice cream maker we found in the basement. (We were cleaning out the repository of junk left by former tenants in anticipation of the electronic recycling day they had at one of the local schools a month or so back. I saw this,
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. I went a bit old-school in the folklore department for this next challenge selection. The Death of King Arthur is a thirteenth century French version of the last days of King Arthur (though the text itself claims it’s written by a Welshman). It’s the third book of
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Pattern: Pookies by Barbara Prime Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted in the Tuareg and Vaa colorways and Quince and Co. Lark in the Chanterelle colorway Needles: Size 6 DPNs I bought this pattern with the intention of working through my worsted weight leftovers, and I’ve fallen in love. My first go (a puppy) was finished in
Well, the iris are out, which means it’s plant whatever the heck else you need to time. I took Friday off so I could go to my favorite garden center (Broadway Gardens)- the haul from which is above. It was raining, so I foolishly thought it would be fairly empty. Ha! Granted, it was no
So the other part of this weekend’s epic drive was a stop at the McLaughlin Garden in South Paris. It’s known for its lilacs (the annual Lilac Festival is this weekend), and they’re all planted in a pretty densely packed woodland area that last weekend was bursting with spring ephemerals. Totally worth the trip. (They
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Pattern: Soledad by Annika BarrantiYarn: Knit Picks Merino Style in the Storm ColorwayNeedles: Size 4 and 5 DPNs and Circs I finished my Soledad sweater a little behind schedule, because I’d originally started out with the Age 2 size, and got almost all the way done with the neck when I found that what I
I actually did a bit of harvesting today – two huge radishes, and salad greens. The greens weren’t filling either pot, and I could use them for other things, so they came out today. Part of yesterday’s epic drive was stopping at a couple of garden centers that are further out of town then
We went on a fairly epic drive around Southern and Western Maine yesterday, stopping at a few gardens and other spots we’d been wanting to see. The above is the Garden at the Pineland Center, which is just starting to come to life – they haven’t planted the vegetables yet, and the fruit trees are
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. These short stories take nine traditional fairy tales and translate them into modern day Los Angeles. The language is poetic, and still very much of the traditional fairy tale. This means that even though most of the tales are not supernatural, the writing keeps that fairy
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