“Mostly Green” & “Mostly Blue” Pullovers

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Jen

We met in Calistoga for Our Little Tradition of sweater gifting & photo shoot. This time a seriously awesome feature ~ right next to the Calistoga Coffee Roastery where we usually meet was this amazing alley way, with newly painted murals on each side ! Here my adorable, clever, and theatrical nieces seemed to step into a netherworld of characters and places of long ago. We then always always always get icecream, our tradition for four equinoxes running ! I hope you enjoy the little slideshow of them posing in front of the murals while wearing their sweaters for the first time, each very delighted.

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Fare thee well sweaters, I’m happy to give you to your new happy homes. You were fun to knit, we thought…

“Mostly Green” and “Mostly Blue”

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Jen

These Two Little Bears , though very simple pullovers with stripes, were lengthy projects, at 6.5 stitches to the inch. Finished the knitting on the Mostly Green pullover, below, and now I’m midway through the yoke decreases in the Mostly Blue pullover, and will have the Autumn Sweaters ready to gift to my two nieces and photograph this coming Sunday. As Spring was incredibly late this year, our Autumn characteristically is always. Leaves are just now starting to turn and flutter to the ground. Our Northern Californian Indian Summer I think is about to end, and to put these winter-worthy pullovers on my nieces to model this weekend!

Autumn on its way

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Jen

This is the (mostly) Green Autumn Sweater for my younger niece. I had bought one of each color of green, and of blue, from KnitPicks Swish. I thought I’d be lucky to find any combination of a few shades, but I ended up loving the mismatched hues, and I bought more! Blueish Teal with Olivey Mossy Green? You bet! Reminds me of Amish Quilt color combinations. ( Oh, and the row marker charm was made and given to me by Morrie. )

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So we returned from the “Out-and-About” Treehouse Village in Oregon, as last mentioned in this post . We stayed for two nights and two days, and I knit most of the time. This was my upstairs little knitting nook…

…and from within, this was my view of the rest of the place. There are catwalks up in the trees , between some really high-up treehouses, all interconnected in a web of rope and wood walkways, seeming to be about 50 feet in the air !!! But we stayed in one of the separate ones, which had steps up to it, called “Serendipitree”.

Here is a photo of the outside . My knitting nook was the tiny room above.