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Saturday (mostly) at Home

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Saturday, August 3, 2024

We had a rainy and gray morning today. I went out on the porch to take a video of the sound of the rain falling on the water and just at that minute a family of Canada Geese swam by. I love the sound of the rain on the water. The weather report said that it would be gray and rainy and HOT today and they were right about most of it … it sure is hot.

I had to run into town this morning to make a bank deposit and to the store to “fix” what we thought was a credit card machine problem. Last night we couldn’t print our reports. This morning, however, they printed. So, I messed with making it work on WIFI so we can move the machine around and it seems to have worked all day. Woo! Hoo!

I’ve been inside since I got home getting MY “work” done: laundry is done, banana nut muffins are baked – the bananas were getting pretty gross – and I’ve spent some time at my desk getting the store newsletter written, my calendar ready for August and catching up on some YouTube channels while I did some knitting. My friend Barbara says that there’s scientific proof that knitting lowers your blood pressure and mine’s a bit high so I wanted to knit a little bit extra today. LOL

After not getting much if any knitting done while my family was here, I’m trying to get some projects moved from the WIP column to the FO column. Today I’ve managed to move two!!!

First project finished is a pair of socks that I started in MAY! These are a gift for a special person. I used an amalgam of two patterns but the texture and most of the pattern is from The Crazy Sock Lady’s Hermione’s Everyday Socks but the toe is Yankee Knitters’ sock pattern that I have memorized. Laziness drove that mix because I don’t always have my Knit Companion/iPad close enough. The yarn is Coop Knits Sock Yeah! and I love love love this yarn. This is the second pair of socks that I’ve made with it and it’s wonderful to work with, the stitch definition is amazing and it’s so soft! I’m so happy to have these finished. I have one more pair of socks for another special person to knit before Christmas … no worries.

The second project that I finished today was the Lattice Have Pie cotton towel. This is another gift. I used some Takhi Cotton yarn and it was a fun knit. I love the towel … I changed the main color after two of the three designs and I might not do that in the future. I think I’d like the main color to remain throughout the project. I was worried that I’d run out of yarn … and I may have had I continued. It will work for drying hands and dishes. I just have to wash and dry it and it will be ready to go to its new home. This is an easy peasy pattern using slipped stitches (aka Mosaic knitting.) It looks so fancy but it’s not. Each row uses only one color.

I have two WIPs left in my knitting bag and a bunch of babies to knit for. My sister’s got a beautiful grandson and two women that I know are having babies, too. I have a couple more sweaters to make for my great-nephew Noah and for Sylvie. And as I mentioned before, one more pair of sock for a special person. So much knitting and so little time! I hope I can finish my Christmas stocking this weekend – tomorrow? – and then I have my River cowl. I’ve been plugging along on it and I’ve been enjoying the knitting. I bought some pink Remix Light and I really want to make another Lane’s Island Pullover with it. I love the one that I have. I have several other WIPs on my shelf waiting for attention … I’ll get there. No worries.

Gone knitting

PS – The sun came out this afternoon. It was a lovely day!

Monday, Monday

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Monday, July 15, 2024

I’ll be honest and tell you that this photo was taken a couple of days ago but it’s still a reflection of our vegetable garden this summer … at least in the new raised bed. We’ve already harvested three summer squash and some Swiss chard and kale all of which are growing really well. The tomatoes in the other big raised bed are not doing as well. We must need to give it some extra nutrients or something because the tomatoes are pretty pathetic. Oh well, we will learn and do better next year.

I spent a block of time yesterday in my atelier catching up with some of my favorite YouTube channels and knitting on my Lattice Have Pie kitchen towel that I’m knitting for my step-daughter. I am really having fun with this project. The yarn is Tahki Stacy Charles Classic Cotton and I chose two colors of blue because her wedding colors were blue and white. I didn’t want to make a white or even partially white dish towel. Yuck. I’m working this on a US7/4.5mm straight needle since it’s all back and forth and slipped stitches are so much fun! There’s not one fancy complicated stranded row in the whole caboodle. I find it relaxing working on this project and I can see doing more.

The pattern is a purchased pattern on Ravelry and it has charted and written instructions. The process is simple enough – follow the steps on the first pattern row and then knit the knit stitches and slip the slipped stitches. Easy as … pie!

I started with the rolling pin design (because it was first in the pattern directions) but you can knit the designs in any order you choose. I then decided to knit the finished pie with steam and all and then I’ll knit the pieces of pie next. I hope it’ll be long enough at that point, otherwise, I’ll knit the rolling pin once more. It’s fun to watch the stitches turn into a picture! It will be washable and dryable and it will be sent with a knitted heart light-up wall hanging that I’ve also given to other couples that I love who got married. I think they’ll like it.

We’ve had an extended time of unseasonably hot weather here in Maine and we’re all “complaining” about the heat. This is like the Florida weather that we came to Maine to avoid. Until a few years ago we only had fans in the house and we only needed them a few days a summer. And when the days got a bit warmer, we added a window air conditioning unit to the living room and then to my studio and my hubby’s man cave, too, but we only ran them for a couple of days in August. This year we installed them in mid-June and have been running them pretty constantly. Yuck! This weather can go straight back to Florida!

Gone knitting.