Now that I’m done with academia and work has settled down and the summer actually feels like it’s actually going to arrive, we’ve been spending a lot of time in what passes for the garden – we do actually have bed space as well but it’s still a bit of a mess until we finish dealing with a pest problem.
But I have herbs (although my majoriam hasn’t taken, woe!) and window boxes and shortly, salad leaves!
And because it requires me to do a lot of it outside, new uses for Altoid tins which have involved spray paint and a semi-fruitless trek around various different hardware stores. Further photos to come, once I pick up the remaining bits and assemble the whole thing.
And, of course there has been knitting. Some of these are finished and others are still works in progress. And there’s more works in progress that don’t have photos yet.
I knitted Ysolda’s Ishbel in Lorna’s Laces sock weight but try as I might, the pattern and I just never properly clicked. There are some mistakes in the finished shawl but they’re all ones I’m willing to live with and it’s certainly been used often since I finished it, so it was a success in that sense! The Abby cowl is my commute project at the moment and is also using up some handspun lace weight wool that I bought off Etsy ages ago.
The socks are Mona Schmidt’s Embossed Leaves [Rav Link] from 25 Favourite Sock Patterns. They’re knitted in Sheldridge Farm Ultra in Apple and I <3 them. And the final picture is my Lace Ribbon Scarf, which was another commute knit.
Also on the needles but currently not photographed is Anna Bell’s Cherry, which is knitting along nicely in a plum Debbie Bliss Cathay and Jared Flood’s Hemlock Ring Blanket, which I attended a class for with the lovely Jared himself at Socktopus last week and look forward to having on my lap come Autumn! I’m using Drops’ Alaska in grey for it.
I’ve also been secret squirrel crafty but I can’t post pictures and talk about them until I’ve posted them all off to their respective recipients! Soon though, soon.