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Springing into Spring Sweaters !

Published on February 27, 2013June 13, 2018 by Jen11 Comments

It is almost the end of February, and these weeks transitioning into March are the heralds of spring. The fruit trees cover themselves in snowy white, and the daffodils pop up out of the ground everywhere (wild irises soon). In the valley, fields explode in yellow mustard flowers ~~ the signature of Napa Valley Spring. But for me , what is the mark of the season is on my knitting needles . . .

my nieces’ Spring Sweater Tees !

I am well on my way through thirteen-year-old nieces’ smokey grey & purple sweater tee, made from the left over yarn of two sock projects of last year, and the light blue & green yarn at the top of the post will be for my ten-year-old niece. This year I’m going to be trying a lacy kind of edging ! I hope that it all works out, as I have never done any kind of lace, what-so-ever. I’ve even done a provisional cast-on for this project so that I could think about it while I knit. By the way, this project so far has been a knit-walking only project, but I am going to have to do some serious hunkering under my bright lamp while reading lace patterning instructions. I’m figuring, again, raglan decreases like last year’s Spring Sweater Tees 2012

Well, anyway, my nieces were just visiting last weekend and we went for a hike on my trail in the woods. I just love, love, love them. They are My Nieces I Love To Pieces !

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Mini Mitts For Nora

Published on February 12, 2013June 13, 2018 by Jen9 Comments

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Tiny and bright. Too cute for words.

Miniature version of the Pin-Striped Fingerless Mitts

For Little Nora (who will soon be two!)

I knit these little things pretty darned tight on the very skinny #0 needles… so there’s some ‘laddering’ going down the middle of the mitts. I love the affect of the variegated yarn too.

Really Red Tam

Published on January 10, 2013November 24, 2022 by Jen25 Comments

I am very proud to finally show you the tam I made !!! It goes in a set with my Really Red Cardigan. I had knit the tam before the holiday gift-knitting crunch set in, then put it aside to be photographed after the new year. New year … check. Photographed…. check. I am over the moon about having this particular cardigan & tam ensemble finished because only a couple of months ago, after having hibernated well over a year, the cardigan was doomed to die a tragic death of getting unraveled out of existence! After much persuasion from a friend, I committed & cut the steek, finished the cardigan, then surprisingly soon after, decided to knit up this tam to go with it. Maybe it was meant to have waited until now, as the rains of the season has made the moss so verdant ~~~ and just look at how well the moss sings praise to the red wool !

There is a bit of a coincidence, that the red in the colorway is called “garnet heather”

. . .well, because garnet is my birth-stone .

. . . and today is my birthday !

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Details found on Ravelry here.

Long Shadows of January

Published on January 1, 2013August 18, 2022 by Jen21 Comments

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Out walking in the new year.

Long shadows cast in the piercing late morning light, vines and deciduous trees bare, a lovely wintery landscape in the mountains of Northern California.
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Jeff , Emma & I are out greeting the new year with cheer, walking up and down watery rocky roads of the back country. Bare trees and fresh grass bursting out from last year’s growth, and water springing out of the ground . . .

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Here Jeff watches a huge flock of doves explode noisily into the air. . .

(Seems to me dogs rarely look up into the sky, but always into the bush !)

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Other things we saw :

lots of ice on the ground . . .

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deeply grooved erosion from water, in the mossy banked soft rock along the country road.

( We’ve had torrential downpours in the last weeks.)

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Whipping in the breeze, the colorful flags still flying in the meadow along the canyon precipice,

releasing prayers to the wind . . .

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First blossoms of winter !

the manzanita’s pink heart-shaped buds . . .

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A little bright wool resting on the grey bare vines !

This perhaps me knitting while hiking, satchels slung to each side, holding two colors being knit into another ( yes still another) pin-striped fingerless mitt. Even Jeff commented at the end of our hike how impressed he was that I was able to knit while walking over some of the terrain we just had. Well, I’ve had lots of practice in recent months !

Happy New Year All !!!

Introducing Really Red !

Published on November 28, 2012August 22, 2026 by Jen34 Comments

At last “Really Red” is finished.

And she is my own design !

A detail of her yoke’s beautiful colors of Autumn , from the back . . .

A detail of my moss stitch rib with vikkel braid, and vintage wooden buttons . . .