i scream

today's ice cream is vanilla rhubarb ripple! sadly it's not solid enough to eat yet.



h has taken to chomping on the salty ice though, so is no longer encouraged to take part in the churning!

summer backyard breakfast

how happy am i to have been given some lovely vintage linen placemats that coordinate wonderfully with the napkins i made last summer?

blocking

blocking the entire dining room, actually. this is why i wanted to get it done before we went away.

a sweater for coraline

coraline has been dragged around by her hair for a while wearing nothing but a grubby old t-shirt grabbed from the beenster's "too stained to wear" pile. so, i thought i'd make her a sparkly star sweater just like in the movie. i'm knitting a strand of sinflex metallic in indigo along with some midnight heather briggs & little. the picture looks brighter than reality. i really like the way it is knitting up.



and, i got some silver sinflex to make stars to appliqué on once the sweater is done. here's my first attempt:



needs blocking, but not bad i think!

ooh!

i am on target to finish the leafghan tonight (yay!) and deciding what to embark upon next. i really need a new black cardigan (staple in my wardrobe, and my old one is no longer on its last legs, but quadriplegic), and i have 8 balls of knitpicks gloss sock which i bought ages ago for this very purpose. so, the time has come - but what pattern to use (other than something pretty basic)? i googled "audrey hepburn cardigan" for inspiration, and didn't find exactly what i was looking for, but found clothes on film instead. lots of ideas and inspiration. also, kitschy kitschy koo has awesome craft projects of yesteryear every friday. more yay!

booooo

okay so i ran out of staycation-posting-steam after spending a couple of days doing unpleasant paperwork and making unpleasant telephone calls.

but i had this great plan where i would finish the leafghan by friday night, so i could leave it out to block over the weekend while we are at the cottage. but! i cleverly left one of my needles at work. so, i won't be working on it tonight. or on tomorrow morning's ttc ride.

but still, i hope. i bought these on the weekend with the intent of using them as padding/protection under a wading pool, so soon they will be busy and not available for afghan-blocking purposes. and it's pretty big. this is a very economical pattern. i'm so happy, i even bought a bunch more yarn so i can make one for my mother-in-law (how's that for currying favour?)

staycation day four

found the leafghan yarn! yay.

day four saw a lot of sewing get done. i'd been monopolizing the kitchen for too long with fabric i'd pulled out for projects and didn't want to put away till they were done, so today was that day. i made a new summer skirt for me (where did summer go?) out of some of the lovely fabric i ordered from runner girl and another pair of pjs for the beenster. and, a new yellow cover for the ironing board (to match the roman blinds i made last month. yes i'm a dork). i also made a black wool crepe skirt out of an old skirt i never wore, and it's going straight into storage for next fall.