field trip

(photo by cheryl)

(photo by cheryl)

one sunshiny day
two wee girls
three different places.
my friend cheryl and i took a field trip yesterday up california's gaviota coast, to look for a location to take family christmas photos. at the same time, i was looking at potential wedding sites, there
is going to be a new union in our family! we looked here and near here, and stopped at the peace farm, here. at one of the places we looked, the caretaker offered us a ride up to the wedding meadow in his jeep. we were grateful, these two would have had to been carried much of the way.
thank you very much for your kindness on my last post, your sweet words make a little girl like abby blush with delight, and big girls like my daughter and me too.

knit to learn

thank you so very much for the tea cozy love in my previous post  :)

this week:

: :  beginning knitting classes began, although for abby and amy above, it was their second time to come. wee six year old abby is the youngest person i've taught, and as proud as she is, i am prouder. today she completed her first garment, a scarf for her pig, wilbur (of charlotte's web) i let her choose a button from my jar for her scarf, i love how delighted she is, it fits!  abby and her mama are part of a home school group that's learning to knit in my classes. if your reading this, happy happy almost seventh birthday abby. see you next week. and don't worry, i won't go to africa before your classes are done. (her mama told me she was worried )      :)

: :  'leah's lovely cardigan' is finished. except the buttons, which i forgot to look for. for the photos, old mother of pearl ones stood in just fine. my daughter was more than happy to take these of me, when she realized she would be using my camera. thank you honey  :) 
she had fun playing photographer and she did a wonderful job i think. i had to get new head shots of her today too, her agent requested red hair, so new dye was used. california blondes (her agent said) are too common and don't get work. we'll see and maybe cross our fingers a little too.

: :  and after a four month wait, the wool i ordered arrived to my lys (local yarn store) it's tosh dk by madeline tosh, in the colorway, well water. i think the timing turned out to be just right after all. casting on for this tonight, so happy to finally be making it...

: : joining with ginny of small things and all the other lovely yarn alongers here. (can't believe i forgot my book, a part of the yarn along, again.)        :)

keeping cosy

my pot has a new sweater    :)

this cosy is a bit on the large side, but it is doing the trick of keeping my tea warm now. in this last photo
if you look close, the front is damp, i learned that the pot should always be undressed before filling. trying my hand at needle felting too, i made small toadstools on a scrap of wool and then appliqued it on the front of the cosy. it is fun, but i can see this is something i need to work on. so giving it another try, this time adding them directly to another baby cardigan. that was even more difficult to do. i definitely need practice. in the meantime my 'leah' is almost done. hoping to have it finished to show today, but i underestimated the time it takes to knit ribbing on a yoke using size one needles. it is s l o w knitting at best. reading mostly magazines and catalogs, i'm having too hard a time concentrating this week to keep to a book. we've just had my mamas memorial and i'm doing something experimental with a health issue. knitting is again helping me through.

the teapot cosy pattern can be found here, and the cardigan, here.  lovely needlefelt toadstool inspiration, here. and redwood forest print, here. joining again with ginny (thank you) of small things for the weekly yarn along.  :)

xxx lori

small visitor

 yesterday this little bird flew into our house.

 it came in through this window...

which really was surprising since this puppy is usually standing guard (it's his favorite spot, notice his

toy hot dog on the window sill in the photo above this one, hee hee)

after flying and crashing madly around the room, all the while owen jumping and barking too, the poor thing landed at the opposite window. see that tiny spot above the words? he's maybe two inches long.



he sat dazed and disoriented on this ledge, for almost ten minutes. owen having been shooed to the backyard. i talked softly to him and do you know he seemed to calm and listen?

he was so cute, i took hurriedly jiggly photos, i need chuck's help with id'ing. i think it's some kind of warbler? maybe you know?

have a lovely weekend everyone, we are supposed to get some rain, a good thing   :)
xo lori