autumn dreams

You know I'm an autumn girl.

And it's that time of year...autumn is just around the corner (happy dance)!!

Rule #23 in my little book of rules: Autumn starts September 1st.

I also have it on pretty good authority that pumpkin spiced lattes will start on September 4th.

Life is good!

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.

The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg,

and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

~James Allen 

Autumn Dreams sock pattern by me in an STR mill end.

blossoms

 I hope you all had a great weekend!

The heat wave finally broke and I was able to go outside and do some photography.

The Sign of Four socks are finished. A little road trip helped to expedite finishing the last wee bit.

Happy Monday!

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

~Henry Ward Beecher 

Sign of Four sock pattern by Anne Hanson in Zen Yarn Garden 'Lemon Meringue'

optimism

This weekend I'm going to stake up tomatoes, hopefully finish a sock, contemplate a new sock pattern, and just maybe (I'm very optimistic, you see!) I'll pull out the camera and photograph said socks! 

I hope you all have a great weekend!! xo

pixels 'n prose

change of pace

We took a little trip to the frog pond...no big deal...just a fit thing.

I really liked the pattern, but the sock was way too snug and I didn't want to fuss with adjustments.

Sigh.

Now I'm knitting another pair of Regan socks.

So far, so good. And fuss free!

I'm a happy camper!

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I had a good weekend, I hope you did, too!
No travel for me, except for around homebase.
If you went somewhere fun, I'd love to hear about it!

 I cleaned house, and organized various cupboards and drawers.
I gardened (the local nursery had its annuals on sale!).

I test-painted new colors for the trim and front door of the house (too fun!!).

I knit.
I breakfasted with a dear friend.

I skyped.

I'm rested and ready for the week.

Happy Monday!

garden of kindness

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots,

Kind words are the flowers,

 

 Kind deeds are the fruits,

Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds,

 

Fill it with sunshine,

kind words and kind deeds.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

a summer palette

Beauty seen is never lost,
God's colors all are fast.

~John Greenleaf Whittier 

past present

We must always change,

renew, rejuvenate ourselves;

otherwise we harden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

flight of time

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,

that we are more deeply inserted into existence

than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

~John Berger  

Time is zipping by. July 4th has come and gone. Summer has settled in fast and hot.

I actually finished one sock last night...and that little sock has been on the needles for a very long time. Hopefully I will carve out some time to photograph it this week...and to get its mate cast on!

I spent a lovely Saturday morning having brunch followed by a photoshoot at the beautiful home and garden sanctuary of friends of my sisters. The poppy and iris images are just a sampling of the gorgeousness of their garden.

I hope you all are doing well.

All is well here...just settling into some new routines, tending to our own little garden, and watching time fly by.

Wishing you a great week! xo

summer sweetness

What good is the warmth of summer,

without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

~John Steinbeck 

I hope you all have a sweet weekend!! xo

serving up

a soon to be color affection shawl by Veera Välimäki.

Short, but sweet today...I'll be back with a full report soon!!

Happy Monday!

welcome summer

kindness

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!!

Something new flew onto the needles...I really need to stop with the castonitis...it's a little out of control!

Sign of Four socks by Anne Hanson designed for Woolgirls' Victorian writers club last year. I finally cast on using the ZYG 'lemon meringue' Serenity 20 - a yarn from a recent WG flavour series kit.

Yum.

That's it for now...more later!!

Happy Monday!

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

~Robert Green Ingersoll  

Sign of Four pattern by Anne Hanson in ZYG serenity 20 'lemon meringue'

father's day

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

~Lydia M. Child 

at play

I'm a little obsessed with macarons...

...and how their glorious colors complement my knitting. ok...they're delicious, too! Busted!

And you all know how much I like playing with my food and knitting in front of the camera!

Everything goes better with a sprinkle of powdered sugar!

Picot edges are a knitterly dessert in my book.

And below...a pistachio dessert from Pix Patisserie.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

~Martin Buber  

Redbud socks by Linda Welch for the RSC in 'spring twig' 

dessert first

You know how I love to play with food...and yarn...and food and yarn together.

These macarons from Pix Patisserie were perfect for some weekend fun!

My Toasty Twist socks are finished...go check out the other lovely socks knit by Marion and Jose during our little mini-KAL on Ravelry...you can search projects using toastytwistkal to search tags, and if you want to join in the toastytwistkal fun feel free to tag your project!!...I think Rani is about to start a pair, too...it's never too late to join in!! You know we'll be knitting more than one pair!!

I hope you're having a good start to your week!!

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

~Emily Dickinson 

violetta verde

The minute I saw these socks I knew I had to knit them. The designer used the Fibonacci sequence of numbers as the foundation for establishing the changing twist pattern. I heart the Fibonacci number sequence and hadn't used it since pre-Ravelry in my knitting.

It was time.

I had some Dream in Color Smooshy Cashmere yarn in the stash waiting for the right project.

I think I did ok.

Happy Friday!

Happy June!

Happy weekend!! xo

 

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...

...I could walk through my garden forever.

~Alfred Lord Tennyson 

Asterales Zag sock pattern by Ellie Ellis in Smooshy Cashmere 'violetta verde'

pixels 'n prose

'Tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes!

~William Wordsworth 

back to basics

Into the Whirled...a new to me vendor I met at MSWF. 

I couldn't resist this skein...a second skein might've jumped into my bag, too...

...I see lemon, berries, and chocolate in this color...yum!

Is there a better plan than to knit a new sock from this gorgeous yarn? Nope.

Just a simple rib and stockinette pattern this time around...back to basics.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,

or rejoice

because thorn bushes have roses.

~Abraham Lincoln