Where has the winter gone?
Ok, another *mostly* non-knitting entry
I spent the day cleaning up the yard. My Peony patch badly needed cleaning. Old stems and leaves needed to be removed. Also cleaned up about four Clematis and a Golden Hop we’ve got climbing up the side of the greenhouse. Also cleaned up a group of Tree Peonies that are in the Nursery inventory. Now Tree Peonies are very early bloomers, but one of the group of the earliest bloomers of the Tree Peonies already have little red leaves starting to show. The Golden Hop has a large number of new buds above the ground and we’ve got a number of bulb plants starting to show leaves.
I realize that most of the US has had a very crappy winter, but the Northwest has been extraordinarily warm and dry this winter. February is usually our worst month of the winter and I’m hoping that we don’t get hit hard. If we do, we will be losing a lot of plants.
OKC — Just to prove I’ve been doing some knitting this past week, here’s a shot of a wash cloth I finished this morning. Mom loves these things and actually puts them to use. I could just do simple garter stitch cloths, but I enjoy adding a bit of lace and it gives me a chance to try out different patterns. This pattern is called “Wreaths Ground” and is from “The Lacy Knitting of Mary Schiffmann”.
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Robbyn wrote:
I love these things
And I also like to use them to test out stitch patterns. But I also use the cloths - they’re wonderful in the bath or the shower.
Recently I bought (as an experiment) some Petit Mandarin Egyptian cotton. Fingering weight and I worked it doubled on #3 wooden needles. It is the most luxurious feeling cloth! AHHHHH!!! I couldn’t have purashed a finished product half so fine for the price I paid for the yarn!
I’ve also made a couple of cloths that I’m going to present to a friend this afternoon in hopes of making a convert. Knitted washcloths rock
Posted on 23-Jan-03 at 8:22 am | Permalink
Larry wrote:
I became a washcloth addict at Christmas this year. Can’t get enough of them. I finished one just yesterday. People who know me think this is weird.
Posted on 23-Jan-03 at 9:03 am | Permalink
Shetha wrote:
I, too, have loved washcloths as a project. Instead, though, I sew them up and make them into little soap bags, because I also make soap as a hobby. If I hadn’t done a washcloth called tiny cables, I would have never understood how cables work.
And on the weather front… our bulbs are starting to put out flower buds. There are bulb buds coming out from places we didn’t even know that bulbs were planted (it’s our first winter/spring in this house). I also saw on accuweather that the beginning of February might bring snow to Portland. I’m very skeptical though. I’ll believe it when I see it (and I’ll be very sad for all the bulbs — hopefully I can cover them).
Posted on 24-Jan-03 at 9:34 am | Permalink