I am falling down on this job. Here it is Saturday, and I’m just now getting last week’s pictures up. Blogging FAIL.
On the upside, I have been busy doing exciting outdoor stuff, which feels pretty awesome. Hooray for nice weather!
May 11, 2009
This is one of the yarns I bought at Maryland Sheep & Wool festival, Misty Mountain Farm Organic Cotton. I have several ideas for this pretty pretty yarn, but haven’t done anything with it yet. Baby blanket? Baby cardigan? The possibilities are endless.
May 12, 2009
The City of DeKalb is doing something big, noisy, and disruptive to the downtown area. This is Third Street, looking north through very large equipment.
May 13, 2009
This picture is for my sister Maribeth, who loves tulips. On my walk from the parking lot to work, I pass this little plot of tulips in front of the Lutheran church, across the street from one of the amazing grand old houses we have in DeKalb. It had rained early on Wednesday and the tulips looked especially pretty. Getting down to a tulip’s eye view didn’t hurt either.
May 14, 2009
On Thursday I, with the help of two enthusiastic boys, put in a sweet basil plant (right), a spicy basil plant (middle), and cilantro (left). The planter was left here by the previous owner and I have taken it (and the other three planters) over, making it into a kitchen garden. I hope to put more plants in the other boxes — parsley, maybe some rosemary. I love having herbs right outside the patio door! And it was great to have the boys’ help.
May 15, 2009
The baby cardigan, part way through. Friday and Saturday were completely full of knitting.
May 16, 2009
Proud mama-to-be with the Violet Stripe Cardigan on the baby bump. She loved it! I worked from 7:15 in the morning to 1:30 in the afternoon to finish the thing. Initially I put in the button band entirely wrong — I picked up too few stitches and the whole thing was puckered and awful. Of course I didn’t notice this until I had completed SIX ROWS of the garter stitch band and had bound off. Let me repeat that. I HAD BOUND OFF and thought I was done, then I looked at it and saw that it was complete crap. All the while NinjaHusband was cleaning the house around me, waiting for me to finish the gift so I could pitch in. So I had to take out the button band, pick up (more of) the stitches again (which is so very annoying), knit the button band (only four rows this time) again, sew the button on and crochet a loop. Epic. But it was finished on time and presented well and it was loved. Awesome.
May 17, 2009
The day after the baby shower, the father-to-be ran his 9th marathon. This picture was post-race. A bunch of us drove around to various points of the race to cheer Jason on. It was so much fun.
beautiful tulips! thanks for thinking of me!