Qana hat

Knitting Notes

These are the hexipuffs I got out of the Knitpicks Palette yarn – I am now officially depleted of those extras. (Don’t have a problem with the yarn, I just had a lot of it in incomplete amounts. My stash page in Ravelry looks noticeably shorter now.) In the spirit of using more stash – […]

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Chokecherries

Garden Notes

The contents of the shrubbery next to the driveway became a little clearer over the course of the week. There are at least three distinct chokecherries, and today revealed a dogwood of the Swida persuasion. The cherries will be easy to keep – they’re in pretty distinct chunks. I’m not so sure about the dogwood

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Leftovers Cowl

Knitting Notes

Pattern: Leftovers Cowl by Wendy D. Johnson Yarn: Knitpicks Palette in the Ash, Ciel, Clarity, Kumquat Heather, Limeade Heather, Macaw, Marina, Pool, Semolina, Seraphim, Serrano, Silver and Sky colorways Needles: Size 4 circs I have used up most of my Palette yarn! What cracks me up is that by the end, I was down to

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Back garden

Garden Notes

So I was in one of my forums and someone mentioned the end of season dahlia sale at Longwood Garden. I was bad. That’s 18 tubers above. I did give two to the my mother, but the rest are now in pots. The big pots above are the dahlias. I also moved most of the

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