Day of rest
Apr. 20th, 2004 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinSlept in, listening to the rain. By's off work today, so he's out scavenging lumber from that warehouse.
Today's agenda includes knitting (gee, big surprise!), smiling out at the yard and enjoying the fact that I don't have to water today, and a little cleaning. But later.
Spent all day yesterday at the greenhouse, helping Donna get ready for the plant sale. I stopped counting seed trays after the 10th (and these were plug trays, at 200 cells per tray), mostly fast-growing stuf--zinnias and cosmos, morning glories and cypress vine and cardinal climber. Then I transplanted....lavender and savory and basil and sneezeweed and cirsium....think i did 12 flats of that stuff. Don't think a lot of what I transplanted will be ready for the plant sale, at least not the first week, but that's ok, we'll find other uses for it.
Spent Sunday at Jen & JC's, watching By help JC install a glass door to their sunroom. I had the easy job--knitting and heckling.
The Sock Report: By's socks are all done, and so are the magic stripe socks I'd finished knitting on a month ago, and just put off weaving in ends. Done, done, done. I feel so much better. I think I'm going to pack up the magic stripes pair as a Xmas present for my mother-in-law, it's just a busier yarn than I prefer. Or for my sister, she'd like it.
The UnSock Report: Finished the fourth side border on the Stonington shawl last night, and started the edging. The edging is a 18-row repeat, and it's going to take me a while to memorize. But it's a nice wide pattern, that'll add another 10" in width to the shawl, which makes it the lovely large piece of fabric I like so much.
I pulled out the finished shawls I've done so far off this cone of yarn. I'm thinking I make frog out one...it's a circular piece, done off a doily pattern, and it just doesn't drape as nice as the others. And it's much smaller...unblocked, still, but it hangs just past my shoulders, and it's a tight enough knit it won't gain that much in blocking. This yarn spit-welds together easy enough, I could add on more yarn to make a larger piece without it showing. That might be a "quiet afternoon in camp" project.
Today's agenda includes knitting (gee, big surprise!), smiling out at the yard and enjoying the fact that I don't have to water today, and a little cleaning. But later.
Spent all day yesterday at the greenhouse, helping Donna get ready for the plant sale. I stopped counting seed trays after the 10th (and these were plug trays, at 200 cells per tray), mostly fast-growing stuf--zinnias and cosmos, morning glories and cypress vine and cardinal climber. Then I transplanted....lavender and savory and basil and sneezeweed and cirsium....think i did 12 flats of that stuff. Don't think a lot of what I transplanted will be ready for the plant sale, at least not the first week, but that's ok, we'll find other uses for it.
Spent Sunday at Jen & JC's, watching By help JC install a glass door to their sunroom. I had the easy job--knitting and heckling.
The Sock Report: By's socks are all done, and so are the magic stripe socks I'd finished knitting on a month ago, and just put off weaving in ends. Done, done, done. I feel so much better. I think I'm going to pack up the magic stripes pair as a Xmas present for my mother-in-law, it's just a busier yarn than I prefer. Or for my sister, she'd like it.
The UnSock Report: Finished the fourth side border on the Stonington shawl last night, and started the edging. The edging is a 18-row repeat, and it's going to take me a while to memorize. But it's a nice wide pattern, that'll add another 10" in width to the shawl, which makes it the lovely large piece of fabric I like so much.
I pulled out the finished shawls I've done so far off this cone of yarn. I'm thinking I make frog out one...it's a circular piece, done off a doily pattern, and it just doesn't drape as nice as the others. And it's much smaller...unblocked, still, but it hangs just past my shoulders, and it's a tight enough knit it won't gain that much in blocking. This yarn spit-welds together easy enough, I could add on more yarn to make a larger piece without it showing. That might be a "quiet afternoon in camp" project.
