Check out my first tomato of the year! It’s almost ripe. The amazing thing is that the plant is alive at all. Our summer has been very cold. We don’t get warm enough here to grow tomatoes, so I picked out an Early Girl just to have fun. The Husband chose a couple heirlooms and is rather petulant that his don’t even have fruit set and I have about a dozen with this little ripe one coming along. I’ll have to let him eat it to make him feel better.
We had a good time at the Kate Wolf Music Festival, even though we cut our trip two days shorter than usual. The music was great. Seeing friends was awesome. It was actually relaxing compared to life at home right now.
As soon as we got back home we collected the keys to our new house and started the work that needs to be done before we can move. The biggest job is putting in a kitchen. The before picture shows the
old wall and island that had to be torn out. Then the really hard work of tearing up the old floor, which was particle board, so it had to be removed down to the bones. Lucky for us, the husband is a retired flooring contractor. We will have nice floors!
When we aren’t working on the house itself, we are knee deep in the planning and choosing. A trip to the lumber store with our cabinet maker was lots of fun. Such pretty wood! We’ve met with many people this week to arrange all the details. Today we ended our day buying our stovetop and ovens. They went on sale right before we got them, whoopee!
Here’s what the kitchen looks like after the tear-out and almost done with the under-floor replacement. The old man worked hard and is snoring in his recliner as I write this.
And what’s going on with my knitting, etc.? Well . . . I added a square to a traveling scarf, and, um . . . yep, that’s it. Maybe the triangle scarf got a few rows farther along. I still have a baby sweater started — with one month to complete it. Yikes! Is it wrong to say I hope the baby comes late? I think it is, poor mama.
Tomorrow is our guild’s demonstration at the Farmer’s Market and I’m in charge of getting us all set up. I’m looking forward to a day outdoors weaving on my rigid heddle and inkle looms. I’ll try to remember to take pictures for a change.
Oh, wait! I forgot that I haven’t posted my hats for the last round of Caps for a Cure. They are all fairly simple, but patterns that I hadn’t tried before.
The purple hat on the left is shown inside out and right side out. It’s reversible! It’s Beret Gaufre by Veronik Avery. I made it more a beanie than a beret. One side looks ribbed and the other looks like seed stitch. I believe it is a broken rib pattern. I used the leftover yarn from my Mondo Cable Vest. It felt virtuous to use up every last bit of the Debbie Bliss cotton.
The red hat with the cabled band is a Ravelry free download called Esme. I used an old favorite — Paton’s Shetland Chunky Tweed – for this one and blocked it into its beret shape.
The last one is the One Ball Really Easy Instant Chemo Cap from HeadHuggers. I used some GGH Esprit that didn’t work when I tried to crochet it, since it is so fluffy and hard to see the stitches. It worked fine knitted. And it is soooo soft! I think it must be like the Chinchilla yarn that the pattern calls for, which is recommended for chemo caps.
So that’s my life right now. Very busy, not much crafting, but enough of everything to make me happy. A special thanks to Carrie for prompting me to post what I’ve been up to lately. It’s so easy to get caught up in the busyness and let the blog slide. I’ll be back soon with a report on the Farmer’s Market.