That’s still up for grabs. I am working on the sleeves. I think the problem is that the shoulders are too wide. This is going to turn out to be one of those cut and sew projects after all. But meantime the weather has warmed up and we got the bean tower in and the beans planted. It’s 80 degrees on the deck. Yum!
Well, I wasn’t happy with the sleeves i made so I’ve ordered more yarn and put the project on hold until it arrives.
Meantime, Randy is getting the new garden shed up and I am sorting and moving the contents. Some to stay and some to go.
And since it’s gotten warm finally, I planted out the winter squashes and pumpkins. The peas are getting big, too!
No weaving going on this weekend. My hands are now too grubby to touch yarn! Gardening and spring type yard work instead. For instance, here’s Randy filling the new garden box with compost and dirt. He sifts all the rock and roots out first, lots of work but it makes a nice growing bed. The tomatoes will go here this year. He also put up the pea trellis, tho they haven’t quite reached that high yet. 😉 A bumper crop of rhubarb in the back there. The bed to the right will have summer squashes and cukes eventually, they’re still in the baby seed bed, but growing nicely, as are the onions in the left photo. I planted three kinds this year, the regular yellow, also some white and red which I haven’t tried before. The bushy plant is a perennial celery. Kind of a cross between celery and parsley, I guess. It has the celery leaf flavor, and that’s what I like. It’s in its third year now.
But I will show you the squares I wove last week from the stash picks. I am leaning heavily to the one on the right. It’s the easiest to weave and I rather like it’s texture. I think it’ll make a nice summer top. But it won’t be a fast one because even being easiest, it is still a slow yarn slow work with. I don’t seem to have the labels handy but if I haven’t said what it is, I will when I get back to it.
Meantime, I am enjoying a nice summer this spring. Hope it’s a warm sunny weekend where you are!
Guess what we’re having for dessert tonight! Yummm!!!!
Beautiful day today. Peas not up yet but I see one tomato peeping though. These heirloom Oxhearts are going to be a little late since I managed to kill my first little ones, but I like them enough to try.
But I finished weaving and have it about half assembled. Not sure how much I’ll get done this weekend since I’m going to have to be in the shop but I’ll work on it when I can. It’s coming along. Hope you are getting some done on your project.
But meantime, Randy bought these lovely glass solar mushrooms for my birthday. The weather is finely nice enough for me to put them out to try. So pretty! They come with pegs for sticking them in the ground but that’s not going to happen. I’m going to have him make a base for them so they can sit on the deck, safely and prettily. He got them at Lowes, if you like them, too. They are quite bright.
I am making progress here but slowly. Shop work and you know it’s gardening season, too, so other things are calling but I am getting it assembled. I’ve given up on finding more of this yarn so it looks like it may have to be sleeveless after all. I guess I can live with that.
And the other squares I was weaving have run into a hitch. But as I have not yet decided what I want them to be , I guess it’s not an urgent problem, huh? The difficulties of life just keep coming, don’t they?! Ah well, it would be nice if this was the worse we had to deal with, wouldn’t it? I’ll try to show you a bit more progress tomorrow.
Meantime, I hope your projects are moving along! Wishing you warm and sunny!
It has been an exceptional autumn here, nice sunny reasonably warm weather, and gorgeous colors with the oaks competing with the maples for the brightest! Set off by poison oak and dogwood in reds against the perfectly blue mountain sky.Hope you are enjoying beauty where you are getting the wood shed full and the garden put to bed. Time to dust off your looms and start finding the perfect yarn for winter projects!
Well, we’re home again. OFFF was very …er… interesting this year! That big storm coming in from Alaska arrived just in time to dampen our spirits. Well, those of us unused to those volumes of rain, that is, and especially the gale force winds! The upper Oregonians just put on their designer waders and kept on shopping! lol We did a pretty good business, tho I was sometimes convinced that shoppers just dropped in the get out of the blustering wind and driving rain and stayed to get interested. Which was fine, but in the end we had to fold up what was left of our tent and crawl back into the 5th wheel. The wind got a little too strong and was tearing us up. But we’ll be back again next year!
After the weekend we headed out east ion hopes of visiting Yellowstone Nat’l park if it was not buried in snow by that time. We didn’t get there as you all know by now that everything National got shut down by out dilatory congress unable to made compromises and losing votes by the bucket full. But I try to avoid political discussions so will skip over that here. We did see a lot of eastern Oregon, had a nice two day visit in Pendleton, visited the woolen factory and left some $ there then went on the view several museums and art galleries. Went on into southern Idaho finally getting ahead (or was it behind?) the storm and into mostly clear but still Very Windy weather. Beautiful country but boy am I glad I was not a pioneer! Those people were either crazy or desperate! I’d have stayed in Ohio! lol It would have been awful country when viewed walking at the side of a covered wagon. But we went on though Pocatello and into Utah. Salt lake was very interesting. Salt Lake City is just too big for me! But it got worse for those poor pioneers! Getting around that huge salt lake and then into the Bonneville salt flats and on to the 40 mile desert. It’s a wonder to me that any of them made it to California. 
My window needed cleaning, the sky was quite clear and blue and the white… it really is salt… went on for as far as you could see. Those mountains are miles away. That place that looks like a blue hill there at the end of the mountains is really a mirage. The salt was quite flat and there was no real water.
And then there was this. I think you’ll all recognize this little girl. And the piles are more salt. There were many of those piles. 
Well, we traveled on across Utah and into Nevada. This was our first trip though norther Nevada but, really, Nevada to tourists, is Nevada, no matter what part you’re in. Well, except for Basin Nat’l monument off Hwy 50, maybe. Took this one on the fly. The last guy cracked an Indiana Jones bullwhip over the last cow just after I snapped this. It’s going to be hard to see detail at this size. I’m going to print this one up big and frame it. 
The story I started off to tell was of meeting another weaver at a way side park in southern Oregon. She saw our tire cover on the trailer with our logo and asked about the looms. I took her into our little travel home and showed her mine. She liked them and ended up increasing her loom stash there by the side of the road! I hope you are enjoying your new looms, Cindy! I think that was so neat. It’s also nice to know that people do see that logo after all! lol
But now we’re home and after filling orders it’s going to be firewood and putting the garden to bed for the winter. hope you are staying warm!
Yes, tomatoes and peaches are getting ripe but today I an making bacon bits. Finally got that frozen three pound block of ends and pieces cut up into ‘bits’ and in the skillet. They’ll render for the rest of the day and get canned tomorrow.
I may make a peach pie later on today so it’s nice and warm for dinner! These are just a few I picked to relieve the branches a bit. May need a few more for the pie. There’s plenty but a couple more days won’t hurt them.
And so I did!
Hazel Rose 