Yesterday we (Dave, me, Rosemary & Curtis) did a day trip up to Santa Ynez and the surrounding area for winetasting, a picnic, and alpacas.
We tasted & picnicked at Zaca Mesa, then visited  Alpacas at West Ranch (Orsino!) and had a lovely visit. Hayley and Joan have an incredible set up with gorgeous animals.  [...]

[Read more →]

Yep, procrastination at its best.
See that new little progress bar in the upper right?
Rather than work on holiday knitting projects, I spent probably a couple hours

looking for a project bar widget
trying to figure out the first plug in I found (that isn’t yet widgetized, so I was trying to figure out how to make it [...]

[Read more →]

I have, at this time, approximately 26 holiday gifts planned.  (Why not an exact number?  Well, I have a couple WIPs/UFOs that may end as Christmas presents too.)

6 pairs of house socks
7 hats
1 pillow
1 pair of slippers
2 pairs of mittens
6 pairs of fingerless mittens
3 toys (Hansi Singh patterns, so cute)

2 of the 6 pairs of [...]

[Read more →]

I picked up and worked on St Brigid and finished (*sort of) the body:

*I really don’t like how the bottom edge looks.  I want it simple, and bound off in pattern, but to me it looks messy/irregular/uneven.  I may pick up and do some applied I cord;  I could do the braided band along the [...]

[Read more →]

Here’s Rivendell:
And here’s Double Diamonds:

I frogged the Sakura socks — they just were a little baggy with the conjunction of the weight of the  MCN, stitch count, and needle size.
Though I will cast on some socks or something small and portable — I’ve made my Christmas present spreadsheet (if you didn’t realize how type A/ [...]

[Read more →]

The hiking trip was fun!  We hiked around Mountain Lake in Moran State Park.  We tasted rose hips (bland), wild grapes (sour) and gooseberries (delicious!) as wells as some greens.  We saw banana slugs.  Nat had baked some blackberry scones the night before for us that we ate at the end of the hike — [...]

[Read more →]

There are lots of deer in Washington — at least the places we’re visiting!  We’ve seen deer every day, including in front of our rental cabin on Orcas.
The first four nights we spent in Dungeness, near Sequim, reasonably convenient to Olympic National Park. We stopped at the visitors’ center for maps and info; the people [...]

[Read more →]