Yesterday's swatch was a fingering weight single. I grabbed it out of my oddball bin, and shouldn't have. Last night I grabbed a small ball of lace weight mohair and voila. Because you know.. everything is better in lace weight! I changed my double decrease to use: slip 2 together knitwise, k1, p2sso. Ding ding.. we have a winner. Its really just a modified fleurette lace pattern, and at least in my case, is reminiscent of daisies.. (or just about any other flower in the garden).

When I took pictures this morning, I grabbed my wonky Kodak, since its macro works much better than my Sony camera. And upon unloading images to the PC, I found a bunch of pictures I took, and totally forgot about..

My Georgia O'Keefe roving, spun into a lace single, and wound into a ball for knitting. I still grin ear to ear when I look at this cake of colorful goodness. Again, many thanks to Jesse for her wonderful work!

Pachysandra. The evergreen loveliness found under years of brush on our back hill.

And the last tulip of the season, at least as far as my yard goes. This was another "surprise" this year, having popped up in a place which was until last summer, covered in brush.

Now back to working on lace, laundry, dishes, and children coming home early from school.

Around a year ago on this day..

• Absolutely NOTHING fun to blog about - 2005