Archive for October, 2009
When Life Hands You Lemons, You’re Lucky
If you’re growing them in Seattle.
I was happy to see this Meyer lemon plant survive on our deck all summer.
It came inside when the weather turned cold and it went (blooming) crazy.
The citrus fragrance fills the room.
While taking photos I spotted two tiny lemons:
Clover stitch marker for scale and attempt to include
knitting content.
Continuing with the citrus theme, we’ve had this orange plant for a few years, it lives indoors full time:
Tiny orange, these don’t get any bigger,
DH uses the peel in martinis.
Okay, here’s something more seasonal (for Seattle):
Pumpkins!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Finally!
I started this last year on a vacation in Canada with yarn bought on a previous trip to Canada and finally finished it on this vacation in Canada. Modifications: added shaped ribbing sleeves instead of the straight 1.75″ of ribbing border For the neck bind off, k2 p2tog all around on larger needles so it would lay nice and flat.
Vogue Oversize Lace Top by Deborah Newton
in Butterfly Super 10 cotton, color 3834
I wove in the last end while waiting in line at the border!
Well, I had to stop briefly to chat at customs but finished within a mile after passing through. It had been sitting for a while but, I forced myself to weave in the ends by not taking any other knitting in the car with me for a 3.5 hour drive.
knit small size so it wouldn’t really be “oversize”
shortened the ribbing and the whole sweater
left out the “eyelet” row in the ribbing
