Looks what I found today! And a primrose, too. the day lilies are starting to poke green shoots up as are the iris. Too exciting! Daffies are almost 4″ tall. We did quite a bit of clean up today while the sun was shining nicely. It was even… well… not quite warm exactly but quite comfortable with a sweater. 🙂
Hope you are finding spring at your house!

Yup… Spring has started in Redding. I’m told the flowering trees started blooming about 3 days ago. I also got a shot of a Ca. poppy blooming at the base of the rolling door at the tire shop while we waited for Randy’s truck to be fitted out in new rubber. The pinkish in the photo is the tender young oak leaves just cautiously beginning to unfurl. The only sign of spring up here in the mountains so far is melting snow and catkins on alder and willow. It’s 29 degrees this morning, which is up from 23 yesterday. I guess that could be a sign as well. 😛 My son in Maryland just told me they got 8″ of snow this week, but I hope you are seeing the warmth at the end of the winter ‘tunnel’ where you are!
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Calamity Jane is a Pomeranian tho Sis keeps her clipped (which seems to defeat the purpose Pom-wise?) but she just knitted a sweater for their morning walks. As you see here, Cammie really loves her new garment! 😀
I thought you’d enjoy this photo and maybe be inspired to tortu…that is, to knit for your pooch. 😉

If you want to see the rest of my latest project for WeaveZine you’ll have to go to the site. You’ll also have to copy & paste since I dunno how to make a good link here. 😦 but I think you’ll find it fun. or funny!

http://www.weavezine.com/ :laugh:

We visited the fiber faire in Weaverville today. It was not a large affair, as you might guess. Kinko, a local spinner, was there with her wheel and lots of yarn. She also had her powered carder and was demoing that. Met a gentelman who showed me the hat he’d knit with some of Kino’s yarn He told me he’d added some angora to make the wool softer on his bald head! 😀 A Lewiston place called Clearwater Ranch had yarn and fiber-they also had a couple of Jacob sheep there… you see April above. There was assorted needle work, crafts for kids to do, some stuff about growing native plants and willow basketry, etc. A boy about 7-8 years old was weaving on a kids loom and doing well at it. There was a lady with a nice display of macram

I am very happy with the way this one turned out! 🙂

Got the new carpet in the bedroom and have things put back together… mostly. Now I have to get the living room back together. 😀 I think it really looks nice. It’s painted my favorite green and I hung my big picture over the bed. Yes, it’s a copy of Georgia O’Keefe’s Lawrence Tree, that I painted for a long ago Artist Reception we did with the kids at school when I worked there. It is also one of my fav’s.

Meantime, I just have to sew the pocket on my woven sweater and I can post a picture of that here. But I need to get prettied up so I can get a picture of it on, too. (That could take some time! 😛 )

The sun came out to day. Briefly, it’s true, but it was nice to know it’s still up there. I hear a new storm is due in on Saturday…

Karen doesn’t like her toes covered. Strange but true and apparently she isn’t the only one. But I knitted her a pair of toe-less socks once and now she says she needs a new pair so I whipped these out with some Bernat baby yarn I had on hand. Kind of cute, tho one ends with pink and the other doesn’t. Oh well! :laugh: Didn’t take long to make. I may make her another pair with some sock yarn just in case she wants to wear them with her toe-less shoes! 😛
We have a couple feet of new snow and now it’s slushing on it. That’s okay. Messy but it has already melted some of the snow. We need the water but it’s kind if like being on a diet… You like looking thinner but getting there isn’t much fun! Getting our lake filled again isn’t much fun, either. Involves way too much mud…
But I’m not complaining, you know! :O 😀

Wow! I didn’t realize I had been absent for so long! Just not much happening to post about, i guess… tho you know that’s never stopped me! :laugh: But here is the view from the bedroom windows this morning. We’ve gotten over a foot since late yesterday & it’s still falling./ The forecast has a long row of snowflake logos. Well, we need it. It’s rather dry but I’m not complaining about that, either. I was about to change the header on this page, but I guess its ‘seasonable’ again! And the bare root peach tree will have to stay at the nursery for awhile yet. Oh well…
Give me some time to work on projects. Himself is spending the day in the shop, I think., when he’s not out playing in the snow. He likes shoveling in winter and raking the rest of the year, whether it’s gravel in the drive of leaves on the lawn. I guess we all have something like that that we do when we don’t want to do what we should be doing!
Hope you are all safe and warm! 🙂

A fellow weaver on Ravelry mentioned assembling a baby blanket using the Flat Braid method. I’d never seen this one before so I wove up 4 Tiny squares with some left-over baby yarn and made this little blanket to try it out. It adds a bit of laciness to it. For those of you asking about assembling you might want to give this a try. I think I might use it on my swap afghan, when I finally get around to putting it together.
Google flat braid crochet and you’ll get lots of YouTube instructions.