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knitted shawl
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And Inside the egg in a tiny mesh bag were the loveliest stitch markers she’d made

Meet Erin who has a professional gardening business. Garden Party With Erin Design. Revive. Restore.
She helped me with my jungle of a garden after the Pandemic. Literally transformed the place.
I know my neighbors were thrilled. Me, too!
I knit her a Read This Hat last year with her business name knit into it.
She popped by today with a surprise gift for me. Check out this hoodie! Love it. How about this photo with the sunshine?







Sweaters this size don’t take too long to knit up and hang on the tree. Years ago, my friend Joanne gave me a tiny sweater she knit and then she gave me the pattern to knit one myself. You don’t actually knit it using the toothpicks.

Car knitting today.
I needed to hold stitches for the gusset, the thumb hole. No barber cord, no pony bead lacing, no waste yarn available in the car. Old Halloween litter from a school party. I bent the Tootsie Roll Pop stick to hold the stitches while I continued to knit up the hand of the mitten. Pattern is Quick Bulky Mitten by Aimee Pelletier

“Malabrigo Caracol is hand-dyed, super bulky superwash merino wool yarn reminiscent of stained glass art.”
I stopped by a friend’s house to drop off some yarn. Took and Jack’s leaves are reminiscent of the yarn colors.



Rachel (on the right). Did your mom give you her Cider Mill Sweater? I gave mine to my DIL Nataliya and Randi gave hers to her mom.
Say Six Cider Mill Sweaters six times fast!
Sweet memories of a fabulous fiber filled weekend.
The pattern is by designer Jen Geigley who joined us with other Cider Mill Sweater Knitters. Karen C found the pattern in Modern Day knitting Field Guide

Our Knitting Buddies Group started in the Pandemic matched up with knitters via The Woolly Thistle store in New Hampshire. Karen C and U are the only two charter members left. We still zoom and knit together Monday nights. And we’ve a few more members not pictured.
From my neighbor. She got them at the Farmer’s Market today. I’d given some knitting help. What a gorgeous autumn bouquet. I put the flowers in my vintage hammered aluminum pitcher.
Thank you Cathy

No wonder I enjoy knitting on the front porch in the early morning. The temps are cooler now. I don’t keep a feeder so I don’t see all the birds but this morning there were quite a few new species that were heard by the free Merlin App out of Cornell Lab of Ornithology

These are screen shots of the birds heard in recording their songs. Usually there are crows and mourning doves but not this morning. The blue jays are the loudest.
When you travel, change locations it’s fun to record the different birds and compare lists. this is what I do in my retirement.




