Sunday, May 18, 2014

Busy weekends

 This is  another of the  top down infant sweaters I enjoy making.  It's a Knitting Pure and Simple pattern, love the color and spots in it. Nice project for traveling or visiting, except for the increases it is fairly mindless. 




Here is the Braided Baby Cable sweater, just need to do the sleeves.   It took a lot more yarn than I thought, this is two skeins down.  


Haven't done a blog post for several weeks, we had a family reunion to go to on Drummond Island the beginning of May, and a working weekend, then Mother's Day.   This picture isn't a very flattering one of me, but it's a nice one of my grandkids,besides being the only one I have of all three of us, so it's going on here.  

The weather is finally getting nice here, although Friday morning we woke up to a winter wonderland.  I bought some iris bulbs and tomato plants at a church garden party yesterday.  Can't wait to get them all planted, want to try some kind of little greenhouse for the tomatoes this year.  We have a bunch of old storm windows that would work for covering them at night to keep the heat in.  Think spring!

Weaving tools

This scarf is made from Mandala yarn in Parrot. The color changes are too long,am not real happy with the large patches of colors. The y...