I'm not much a fan of summer weather - too hot & humid, but I do love spending time with the family (my children) and the opportunity to catch up on knitting. The teenagers spend most of their summer at their Dad's house. I'm looking forward to having them home on Monday. Here's what Nu and I have been up to...
This is the Snow Shadow Fingerless Gloves pattern by Anniki Leppik. I fell in love with the pattern & I'm knitting the fourth pair. Looks like some people will be happy with Santa this year.
The flowers from the garden are sparse this year, but every now & then we do manage a wee bit of beauty for the vase on the mantle.
I knitted these, using yarn leftovers, one night when I couldn't sleep. The pattern is the Incredible Expanding Gnome Cap. Anyone having twins? (No. Not me.)
Sleep. Yes, sometimes.
Yet another knit. I've made a few of these over the year. The one Nu is modeling is for a friend of hers. It's the Olivia Kerchief pattern.
Nu dipped a random pencil in her drinking water. It was an Aquarell one. Thus started an hour of creativity.
Since there's no one in my life who gifts me flowers, I buy them myself and then put them in lil' vases all over the house. It makes me happy.
Nu's Autumn Dreamcoat. Noro Silk Garden. It's lovely, but I can already see the playground mulch getting stuck on it... I wanted a simple pattern as the yarn is so colorful & found Flary Cardigan.
{I posted a few lil' pieces of writing. They are from a writing workshop I took in the spring. Unless I fall off the blogging wagon again (I'm trying to hang on!), I'll have a post about that tomorrow.}
Happy Summer!
4 comments:
Do tell us how the boys have changed when they come home . . . I always love the parents on FB posting the back to school photos . . or, if they are like your boys and don't want to be photographed, they tell about how they have had to buy clothes larger than last year and how their clothing choices have changed over the years :)
Will do.
Nu's Autumn Dreamcoat is just gorgeous! Pretty posies and beautifully handcrafted knits.
Think of you often darlin girl.
Soft squishy hugs
Kimmie
xox
That is a beautiful Dreamcoat. I love the name!!
When I was a single mama, I also gave myself flowers - I've actually been doing that again this year (not single now - but just because I'm not doesn't mean I get flowers!).
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