Kumasi
Huge thank yous to everyone who participated in this naming project, especially to those who suggested the names that we voted on. The clear winner, coming in with nine votes—four more than the closest competitor—is Kumasi, suggested by Carolyn (sadly blogless). Carolyn, I sent you email just a few minutes before posting this. If you […]
Okay, folks. Here’s your chance to vote for your favorite name for the secret project described last week, made with the dark brown yarn in leaf/heart patterns. You may vote for only one name. The suggestions below are in alphabetic order.
Name the secret project
Cocoa Bliss (19%, 5 Votes)
Dagobah (11%, 3 Votes)
Eldfjall Hjarta (7%, 2 […]
Sometimes the name of a design I’m working on just jumps out at me. Sometimes, after digging around on the Internet for a bit, following links here and there, I find inspiration, and the perfect name is right there in front of me. Sometimes, no matter what I do, no matter what I discover, what […]
I released a pattern today. The baby blanket pattern done in garter stitch that looks like a quilt. Yup. That one. My test knitter was finally done with me, and the proof-reader also, so we have a pattern. Here it is:
Knit with two strands of Elann’s Sonata, an all-cotton yarn that not only survived a […]
Office update
Back in February I told you about moving the “new” office furniture into my home office, an began in early December. The last big part of that process finally happened on Saturday, almost exactly four months after it suddenly began. A couple of things came together that allowed this to finally occur: Dave’s torn […]
We went and picked up the blocking wire tubes from the printer this afternoon. Check this out. Just like downtown. (You know, it’s hard to get good pictures of these things.)
No more labels stuck onto the tubes. What’s more: no more endless hours spent sitting here sticking labels onto tubes. The labels are now printed […]
They’re open. The flowers opened this morning. Late yesterday they finished moving into position: both flower buds horizontal to the ground. And today? This:
In honor of Georgia O’Keefe’s closeups of flowers, paintings I have long admired, these:
A number of years ago I was wandering around San Francisco with my dear friend Rebecca, when […]
Watching the amaryllis change every day is awe inspiring. The bulb has been busy since yesterday. In the afternoon the flower buds started to move apart from each other. This morning they looked like this:
The flower buds themselves don’t look much different than yesterday. But the first leaves down below grew a bit.
The small strawberry […]
The amaryllis didn’t look that much different first thing this morning than it did yesterday morning.
It’s out a little farther, and the color is a bit more intense. It’s extremely clear at this point that there will be two blossoms at the top of the stalk.
The swatch knit in the round worked out […]
This morning it looked like this:
The edge of one petal is starting to unfurl. And just look at that color!
My Cecil Bruner roses have been putting on quite the show this year, too. I picked a few, put them in the tiny vase that Dad bought for me when I was a child, a special […]