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Category Archive: Knitting
Just in time
While out running errands, my husband was taken by all these signs on this car.’
I finished all the chores I set for myself yesterday and today and had 5 minutes to knit before going to the airport. And yes, I’m tired, but it’s so nice to see my brother again. I am going to bed early tonight. I have no idea what tomorrow will bring as my brother has not yet decided.
Do any of you know what this bush is?
Sock yarn leftovers
It was one of those crazy days where I don’t feel a lot was accomplished and yet it was. There is just a lot more to do. So let’s start with explaining about the socks.
In the photo at the left, you can see I loop the new yarn around the needle and knit it into the next stitch.
Then the next 5 or 6 stitches, I knit with both pieces of the new yarn. When finished, I weave in the yarn that I dropped when changing yarns. This is just my made up way to do it. I don’t know how the professionals do it.
See where each loop is – there are three. Those are places where I changed yarns. I hope that makes it a bit clearer.
We spent the morning putting up curtains and taking many of the excess items out of the new guest room. These are the fleeces that have been repackaged and are ready for me to make some decisions on what I will do with them. At least they are sorted and in one pile instead of overflowing the closet and the corners.
And the drapes are now up and the shade is working. Tomorrow, I will get the rugs and trash can. I ran out of energy today.
I decided to hang this on the screen to cut the view of my very messy table that at times is used for potting plants and other times to trim quilts.
And this is the end of the hall. Now, it looks a bit more like a home instead of just a basement.
I did get the binding cut for the circus quilt. Now to find time to quilt it.
I wonder how people get their houses to stay clean. We use the entire house and there are always areas that could use “spring cleaning”. Tomorrow my list includes yoga, getting the rugs for the guest room and it’s bathroom, sheets for our bed, picking up my sewing machine from the “hospital”, picking and cleaning maybe 6 gallons of greens, fertilizing the hoop house (DH will do the big garden) and watering, mopping the floors downstairs, cleaning the wall the dogs wiped their coats on last winter, and then do a tidy up job on the shelves in the bathroom and cleaning it. I will ask DH to pick up the chairs that are at the chair “hospital” And you know what, it won’t all get done, but it is on my list. Maybe that’s why it seems I’m always playing “catch-up”. Oh, and if/when all that is done, there is a circus quilt waiting to be quilted.
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Scrap knitting
Summer is coming in with a bang and I don’t have enough pairs of short socks, but I do have plenty of leftovers from previous pairs of knitted socks. Since the foot is in the shoe, most of the sock doesn’t show. So I have decided to knit with somewhat similar balls of left over yarn. I do one inch of knit 2, purl 2 on 64 stitches and then the heel flap. Here I am ready to turn the heel and pick up the instep stitches. Somewhere in there, I will be moving on to the next balls of yarn. This will indeed be interesting.
In the Kitchen
No photos today as I make a vegetable soup from what I found in the refrigerator. Then I made a bulgur wheat dish with miso for flavoring. It doesn’t look like much, but it tastes good. I made cashew milk and cereal for breakfasts. We make steel cut oats for 3 days at a time and then just heat them. I have the Quinoa cooling to make a salad for Sunday.
In between, I supervised some yard work and did research on AI on sheep. It turns out that it is much more difficult than on cattle. There is also the expensive proposition of bringing in the semen and all the paperwork that involves. After talking to Washington State University, it doesn’t look like something I can afford.
So near the end of the day, I decided that I needed something fun and started this dish cloth. The yarn is pure Peruvian prime cotton from Juniper Moon Farms. It’s a simple K and P pattern from Janet Nogle
Blue/grey socks finished
I started the day by removing the 4 quarts of granola from the dehydrator trays and putting it away. Now there is at least a minimal breakfast for those hot days when I won’t want to cook or for an evening meal.
Then it was off to the chiropractor. Even though I’m done, it helps if there are two people in the car as we can use the express lane, so I went along and worked on the knitting in transit.
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Besides there is a Whole Foods store there and I love looking through the store. I find things I don’t find in other grocery stores and their produce always looks so good and fresh.
And before the day was over, these socks that I thought I was setting aside are finished. They are done in Elann’s superwash “Sock it to me collection” style “puzzle” I used #2 needles, cast on 64 stitches and knit 6, purl 2.
Tomorrow is my day to catch up on house cleaning and work in the hoop ouse.
Socks, etc.
This is the last you will see of these socks this week. I’m getting tired of them, though I’m about half way to the toe, so they will find a back burner for awhile.
These are the peppers that will be going out to the hoop house tomorrow. I forgot to green peppers, so I’ll have to purchase some plants. These seeds are from peppers we ate.
And just so you will get an idea of how relaxing this environment is for some, enjoy this.
Frogging and a guest
There was a good bit of frogging on my socks today, so I thought I’d share my friend’s work with you. Mary came with her knitting for a lovely visit. She is making this sweater for her aunt in 100% baby alpaca. It is wonderfully soft. 
She is a beautiful knitter as well as her other skills. This is the point at which she left here to return home.
faded blue socks and salads
Since my eyes still aren’t cooperating enough to do much sewing, I’m still working on knitting and gardening. This is Elan’s “Sock it to me” color puzzle. I am using #2 needles and the pattern is K6, P2.
I keep seeing photos of salads in pint jars. So I made enough for us to last until Thursday or Friday, depending on how hungry we are. It is nice chopping all the veggies at one time. It surprised me how much salad can go into a pint. We each had one for supper and my guess is there will be times we will share a salad, depending on how filling the main meal is. In these jars, I started with a couple walnuts, then cuke (though I won’t expect a cuke to last more than 4 days), carrots, celery, red and orange peppers, cauliflower or broccoli with lettuce on top. Then we just turned the jar over into our salad bowls and added dressing. Oh, how convenient! If you look up “salad in a jar” there are many ideas.
Tomorrow at 8, I will have surgery on the other eye. Then in a month, they will check my vision and give me corrective lenses as needed.
For those of you in flooding Texas, our prayers are with you. I know when you asked for our rain, this isn’t what you meant. (It was 88 and beautiful here today)
