While Waiting for Fabric to Dry

I have a dress I’m supposed to be drafting and sewing on commission right now for one of my aunties.  So what did I do instead?  Worked on a design that has been in my sketch/idea/doodle book for awhile now.  (My excuse–the fabric was drying.) I took a pattern I already had, made it with [...]

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Wayward Needles and Long Grass

Earlier in the week I reflected upon a date several weeks past.  I’ve been thinking about what I’ve been up to this week, as the last precious days of summer vacation trickle on past.  The answer is typical: knitting and gardening/yard work.  We did have a seasonal diversion as well this past week and I’ll [...]

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Whoosh–It’s Gone

I never mentioned that the dress I posted back in July was for my anniversary.  My TENTH anniversary.  The anniversary I’ve been looking forward to for months because of the Big Weekend and because it seemed such a big date.  And then the day itself passed quickly and we left the very next morning for [...]

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Back to the Chaos

I returned home this late afternoon after living like a single person for 2.5 days.  It was surreal, an alternate reality.  Quiet.
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Arriving in Cleveland you can see the city skyline.  I first went to Phoenix Coffee to meet Kim and get some work done for the fall semester.  The red crushed velvet couch is [...]

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My Bliss: Adirondacks in August

Back to the Adirondacks in August, my favorite month to visit the region.  A list for you, just like last year:

Seeing the road lined with tall trees
Curving around bends and seeing a new lake every few miles
Inhaling the sharp, fresh scent of pine needles and moist soil
Scrambling over open rock face
A paddle dipping in the [...]

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Lemon Fresh

Yesterday was a day of so many random projects.  A day that needed, but was without, a list.  After the laundry was hung on the line we gravitated toward staying outdoors–L1 to chopping wood, me to the garden.  Compost was turned, used, and the designated dump pile begun anew.  My poor neglected lavender bed was [...]

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Mentionable Unmentionables

I finished these during our vacation and my girl and I took to the beach so that L1 could get some shots of us together in them.  Though I think hers are far cuter than mine, I’m not sorry I made them.

Stats (for the interested):
Pattern: Unmentionables by Lee Wood Juvan
Yarn: Cotton Fleece in Nymph, 4 [...]

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Greetings from Seaside Heights

We’re at the ocean for the week!  After a miserable drive through PA (is the construction on 81 ever done?!?) and the Garden State Parkway (aptly named–park is about right) we arrived.  We’re spending the week with L1’s siblings and their families and his dad and wife.  We’re across the street from the ocean and [...]

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