Posts from — June 2009

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It seems like my knitting has been just somthing to do with my hands lately.  I haven’t completed anything.  Although I had the best laid plans to join in on a KAL for another BSJ that too seems to have escaped me.  Hopefully, by the time the ASJ KAL comes up, I’ll be ready to wrap my brain around a real project.

Currently on the needles is another slouch hat made with my “recipe” that I used to make the Gray Slouch Hat.  I ended up frogging the Pi Are Square shawl for now.  I do intend to make it, just didn’t have enough of the yarn I was using for it, and would rather it be in a lighter weight yarn anyway.

So what HAVE I been doing?

Well…

1. We did the cold/cough thing for the month of May around here, plus life got busy as it almost always does in the late spring early summer months.   So, that’s my excuse for nothing to post to the blog on actual knitting progress.
2. I’m planting a container garden that started because I was gifted some tomato seeds.  Once you start buying the pots and soil to plant your seedlings though – at least around this house – it seems like now you’ve embarked upon much more than a pot of tomatoes.  We have been wanting a garden for the last few years though, so finally we have been able to actually do just that.  There’s no option for planting anything in our soil.  It’s either rock or clay – and where the clay is workable, the gofers have first option.  So, we’re going with pots.  Besides, where we go, our “garden” can come because it will all be portable.   That’s a good option if you rent.
3. So, with this nice long Spring and late rains, I’ve mostly just been watching the flowers bloom.  Not such a bad thing really, although I do think it’s time to mow the ones that have bloomed in the lawn.

Possible Links of Interest

• Emily Ocker’s Cast-on Tutorial
• Container Gardening
• Elizabeth Zimmermann Books