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Sunday Summer Tee
 Here's my first summer sweater of 2021. I fell in love with PetiteKnit's Sunday Tee and knew it would be the perfect pattern for my stash Summerlite 4ply Cotton. PetiteKnit's patterns use the less is...
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Happen test
 I recently finished a test for Anke of Ankestrict. If you don't know about Anke, she is a well known German knitwear designer. I've test knitted for her several times and she is lovely.to work with....
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dinner with friends
Remember when I used to show pictures of my friend's parties? Now that we are vaccinated, parties are back on! Last week when I arrived at my first dinner party in 18 months I was handed a beautiful...
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Full Heart
I have an adorable knit to show you today. Full Heart is my new favorite children's pattern and almost as fast as I had it off my needles I bought some yarn to make a red Full Heart for Christmas. This...
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our roses 2021
Here are pictures of our roses this spring. It was a good rose year!Climbing Blaze below.Carter arranged these roses for me.Eden Climbing Rose above and below. Such a great rose.Blooms like a champ...
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twinning stripes
 First, a little business. I found several dozen comments in my junk file. Most required responses and I think I've finally responded to everyone, even if late. I don't know how long this has been...
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our revamped veggie garden and patio refresh
 Come on in and have a look-see around the vegetable garden. This spring my husband and son replaced our old, broken-down raised beds and watering system. The old garden had served us well for decades...
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new life for old china
 In case you were like me in 2020 and did quite of bit of clearing out clutter but still don't know what to do with the inherited china sets that no one wants, I'll tell you what I did. First, I came...
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summery things to love
A few of my favorite things about summer: Fresh flowers in random rooms. Just picked vegetables on every menu. Pesto on everything. Knitting to baseball, except right now I'm on my laptop while I'm...
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harvesting summer herbs and a trip to Carmel
Herb butters are perfect for finishing sauces, making croutons, scrambled eggs--the list is endless. Now is the time to make them to capture maximum flavor and potency. They freeze well and are...
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travel projects, plum jam, birthdays and old letters
 I went to Maui last week to visit my BFF of 58 years. We both celebrate our birthdays in July and this was a big one. We celebrated our birthday dinner with 8 friends at Mama's Fish House. It was a...
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tomato red
It's a good day when I get to make the summer's first batch of roasted tomato sauce. It means the days are sunny and the tomatoes are plentiful and my birthday is right around the corner! Besides...
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tincture two
Hello! Just popping in with a little post to show off my grandson modeling a new hat that will be a gift this Christmas. He spent the night last night and this morning I asked him to model a hat for...
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a new idea for a budget table setting
Last night we had a small party for ten, our monthly (except during covid) party group of 14 minus four who were traveling. It was fun and easy--we served BLTs, aka bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich,...
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Good Old Raglan, free pattern alert!
 My little model is spending the week with us and he agreed to a modeling moment and picked a bouquet of flowers for mommy at the same time.This pattern, Good Old Raglan, is terrific and it's free!...
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our new dahlia patch
 Before summer slips away I thought I'd share one of our recent garden projects, our new dahlia bed. We have a patch of dirt in a mostly unvisited part of our side yard. It's usually out of sight out...
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an old-fashioned stain removal trick for your hand knits
 You all know how much I knit (just look at that sweater cupboard, and every one is hand knit!) but do you know I wear a hand knit almost every day? A l m o s t every day, except today; it was 95! As...
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Poor Boy revisited
I'm so happy that I finally have a modeled sweater to share today. I always say that the knitting is the easy part, the modeling, not so much. This is the Cocoon Summer Sweater pattern from Heidi and...
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Rivage
This pattern is almost a decade old and I've had my eye on it since the beginning. For some reason I always thought Loft, this fingering weight yarn from Brooklyn Tweed, and one of his earlier yarns,...
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holy city hat
Hello! Just popping in with a quick post to show a new colorful hat pattern that uses the terrifically fun mosaic colorwork technique. The pattern is just out today and uses light fingering weight yarn...
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