New Things

The Garden has been keeping me busy. Really busy. It's slowly starting to go off and get big. I can't wait for the first tomatoes. I'm holding off buying anything resembling a tomato from the store with great anticipation for things to come. Cosmos are blooming.



We just ate our first salad with three types of lettuce.



Ate bunches of raab (??) broccoli


and have 24 tomato plants doing well, and another 100 or so to give away... Want some??? The sunflowers are coming back to life after getting mildewy and overwatered. The beans are crawling up their yarn stalks. It's pretty incredible to walk outside and think that everything out there came from seed. Enough to get me out of bed in the morning and spend all the time it takes to water around the yard.



That said, we just bought a bunch of drip irrigation parts this afternoon and will hopefully spend a good part of tomorrow figuring out how it all works and undoubtably go back to Friedman's for a trip or two.

For Ben's birthday I decided to make something practical and loud. Picked up some plasticky yellow table cloth fabric and made an awesome grocery/beach bag that is not only loud, it stands up all on its own. Here it is next to its big brother commuter bag.



Check out the insane seams.


Thanks to this website.

Working on yet another pair of socks from the same lady that made the dahlia pattern. These are birds of paradise socks. If only I had one of those in front of the house. That'd be awesome. It's an easy enough pattern to cruise through. Hopefully these won't take nearly as long as the last pair. Worked on them a bit at a knitting group I check out last Monday and will likely go to again tomorrow.



Last winter I made this silly top. It's sweet soft organic (maybe...)
cotton from blue sky. Got the yarn while driving through Bend, Oregon a couple summers ago. I'm a sucker for bright colors though I tend to hide them in places like socks. Maybe I'll get around to wearing this sometime this summer on the river if Melissa let's me leave the house with it. She has a strong anti-80's sentiment. It's unfortunate. Looking at it now I should block the edges.