Yarnivorous

G'day all! It is near the end of June, and you know what that means? It's anniversary time! Sunday was the sixth anniversary of us moving to the States.  We have now spent four of the last six years in the US.  Time flies when you're having fun!  It also seems to fly when you aren't having fun, it just feels like it is crawling. Today is the 13th anniversary of DH and I hooking up.  He was such a shy thing, believe it or not.  I was the one pushing the relationship but he seemed fairly happy about the whole idea, if a bit terrified. I think I deserve a medal.  Maybe he deserves a medal too - I apparently scared off all the other chaps.  Scariness runs in my family it seems. I am extra chuffed by something I did on Saturday.  Alas, there don't seem to be any photos of me online, and I am not sharing my photos with you because they show somewhat more detail than I am comfortable sharing on an open forum. Also, I don't want to scare my ...

G'day all! I've been futzing around for a while now, wondering what blog reader to use...  I've got the blog in Bloglovin now but maybe Feedly would be good... dunno.  Too hard. Follow my blog with Bloglovin So there's the Bloglovin link.  I'll get me sorted eventually. If anyone can tell me how we are in the Ides of June already, I'd be grateful.  Like what happened to the rest of the year?  The days are massively long - it is light at 4:30am now, if the sky is clear.  It is light almost at 10pm, if the skies are clear.  It is wrong.  I had to make a blackout curtain for the bedroom because it gets too light too early.  I'd take a pic of it but umm it works quite well.  LOL Gosh, Blogger let me upload one recent flower pic from the phone. Generous! Anyway, the weather is being interesting.  It warms up, it cools down.  It warms up, then the clouds roll over and it gets humid and I realise how odd it is to feel h...

G'day all!  Well sorta g'day.  22 years have passed. It is too warm to grow good peonies in Melbourne. 22 years since Mum passed, but I prefer to say died.  Passed is too gentle a word, it sounds nothing like what she suffered through or we experienced secondhand. Oh dear, red/orange with purple. Shocking, totally shocking. And what a clashing colour combo! Mum would've liked the campanula and the rhodo planted in separate garden beds. Bit of a wussy colour but smelled ok. This rose would've gone down well. I think she would've liked these flowers, especially any she could cut and bring inside.  I've chosen ones that I know she liked to grow or would've liked. Viburnum, snowball tree. This was the closest we got to snowballs in Melbourne. Mollis azalea, like one of the three different colours we had. A stinky rose with stripes. It's weird - I still dream of her, we still go shopping and occasionally...

G'day all! I am sure you are all familiar with the idea of a pub crawl, but they are not my scene.  Nope, I am much happier with a yarn crawl, or a fibre crawl or even a fabric crawl. Skagit River, Mt Vernon And today I went on a yarn crawl.  A bunch of the "local" shops put on what is called shop hop.  One of the shops was very easy to get to - I just cross four roads in total and I am there.  It is quicker for me to walk than drive and try to find parking.  Also, who drives about 400 yards to get somewhere unless there really is no way to walk there?  I wandered in there on Friday. I popped by another local shop and scavenged some of their $1 patterns yesterday. But today I took off for pastures new.  I stopped in at my LYS for Wednesday night knitting (Bad Woman Yarn), then started the fun of navigating. Whoever laid out the north east quadrant of Seattle was on crack at the time.  I understand that roads cannot go over the edge o...

G'day all! A monster has been eating pretty much all my crafting time over the last month.  I've had very little time off from it, knitting it on the ferry to the island, taking it to knit night, working late on it... But at last it is done!  And it was done in time for Syttende Mai, Norwegian Constitution Day, or their national day. I wore it to the big parade in Ballard, the parade that passes along the "end" of my street. Not a very good shot and you can't even see the Norwegian flag but behind me is a Setesdal pullover and some folk costumes. This was the most complicated thing I've knitted I reckon. Take one tube, mostly knitted in the round, with two sleeves also knitted in the round.  Knitting in the round means no purling.  This makes it quicker. Body and two sleeves Stick the tube under the sewing machine and sew along the four stitches with no pattern down the front of the tube.   Sewing knitting.  How odd. Note ...