Yarnivorous

G'day all! I thought I should do a knitted finished object post - I've been knitting like crazy for the last couple of months. I've been taking part in a knitalong my favourite group on Ravelry (RemRants), Summer of Lace 2016.  I guess it isn't so much a knitalong where you all do the same pattern as a group encouragement thing where we show off what we've been knitting and it should have some lace in it. A couple of weeks ago I took some of my new knits down to the beach and did a photo shoot of them and a quilt I finished months and months ago. First, for your delectation and delight, we have Dawn : Convenient driftwood, and colours match the shawl! The pattern is  Girdle of Melian  by  Raven Knits Designs  (links go to Ravelry).  Light yarn is aptly named Dawn, in a  silk, wool and seacell blend  by Fidalgo Artisan yarns.  Its colour is more subtle than my pics show.  It really looks like that clear blue light of j...

G'day all! Time is slipping through my fingers.  How did it get to be near the end of the day already?  How can I not have blogged for all of August?  How can it be September already?  Signs of autumn are showing up everywhere - stressed trees are losing their leaves, non-stressed trees are starting to go orange and red.... No, not yet, I'm not ready! My garden is going bonkers but I'm starting to worry that I won't get many more tomatoes ripened.  I've got many many green tomatoes, like I'd say at least 20 kilos/50 lb of the things are still green.  The weather has been pretty average the last week or so, though it is meant to become a bit sunnier now. Thriving, half-fallen over tomato Big tomato! Little plant, many capsicums/chillies/bell peppers Eggplants! I would like my eggplants to keep producing/start producing.  The little finger sized ones have been going great guns but the bigger ones have only really just start...