Just saying.
Dave took this picture when we were at the zoo the other day. The Santa Ana Zoo is pretty small, as zoos go, but it’s a nice place. Once a month you can get in free if you can prove residency. We’d been meaning to go for ages, and finally made it last weekend. […]
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 […]
Wishing you and yours a fine, joy-filled, spring day, whether or not you celebrate Easter.
The buds are bigger than yesterday, and there’s some lovely color on this one that darkens toward the base. Plus, it’s starting to grow a leaf. Floral multitasking at its finest.
Shop list
We received the most recent list of shops that my patterns are in from our distributor today. Our stuff is now in 347 shops, all but five of which are in the U.S. I updated the shop list on my pattern site. The shops that are not in the U.S., and the two Internet-only […]
When I first started swatching this shape last week from a stitch I found in an old German knitting book, I wondered what it would be called. Septagon came to mind, though it didn’t sound quite right. As it turns out, use of the term “septagon” is not recommended by Wolfram Mathworld:
A heptagon is a […]