74 on 7/4

Click to see this card shoot fireworks 28 second video with sound and lights

Thanks Gloria & Jeff for this bday card that’s alive
From Laura at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Rear view
My knitting friend GS made the beaded ornament. The braided wreath I stitched years ago but it’s missing the bow to cover the connecting seam.
Photo by Shanti. I’m wearing a friend’s (GB)
knitted shawl

Wordless Wednesday

Silent Sunday

Hand knit and beaded Egg Cover by my talented and generous friend
thank you dear Gail S.

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

Garden Party with Erin

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?

Artist who designed her company logo is ________(awaiting Erin’s response but it’s late tonight)

Problem and Solution

Tiny Sweater Ornament

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.

Lollipop Stick Holding Gusset Stitches

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

Woolly Thistle Bag. Malabrigo Caracol
purchased last year in Millvale at McWalker Yarns

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.

6 Cider Mill Sweaters Oct 15, 2022

I didn’t mean to remove the background but somehow I did
Here is part of our Knitting Buddies Zoom group who met in Rhinebeck NewYork at the Duchess County Sheep and Wool Festival. It’s happening again this weekend but only Karen, Patty and Rachel are attending.
We all hail from Pittsburgh, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Florida

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

Knit Designer Jen Geigley seated second from left holding our friend Flat Bonnie who couldn’t make the trip in person and another Knitting Buddy Flat Gayle from Australia in the front center

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.

The gift of flowers

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

Listening for Birds on the Front Porch Tuesday Morning

…The study revealed that bird song not only positively impacted anxiety, depression, and general wellbeing but it also helped individuals’ self-regulation, allowing for deeper concentration, and focus”

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.

And another article about Mental Health Wellness and Birdsong “The Soothing Melody of Birds: Exploring the Mental Health Benefits of Nature’s Song”