craft show on the island

strange flower mom found in her garden.




we figure it was a bulb plant. also in one of the geranium hanging baskets was a bird nest. we started pulling out the weeds and that's when she found the nest along with eggs. she put them back in and will keep an eye on it.




eddie's pumpkin,


only 100 pounds.

should be close to

1000 pounds by


time of judging and picking.













house took 4 years


to build. i's on the

edge of a cliff.






for the most part the weekend on the island was great. the transportation gettting to and leaving the island leaves something to be desired in the middle of summer-using the winter ferry. what was to be a 20 min ride ended up being close to 2 hours travel with the wait time.

the craft show : with only 5 vendors there was slim pickings. not many brought money to buy things, they were more interested in yard sale items, vs brand new handmade items.

i did sell the pig and monkey child hats, a pair of fun fur flip lops and an infant knit hat, scarf and mittens set.
lot of people but the had too many other activities planned for that day.
blueberry picking was at 9am-start of craft show and south end had a bbq at 11am for anybody who wanted to go. craft show ran from 9-11 and with ferry problems they had to run 2 boats per scheduled run.
new project i plan to start today will be the snsettter fish. we put up mms sunsetter on sunday and she hung the cloth fish from the edges. i figure with the plastic bags i have, bright orange, yellow, blue and green i can make a pretty neat looking fish to hand along with its fin. gonna be fun to do this and probably won't take too long.
can't wait for susan to bring yarn over to me for soldiers hats.

coat sweater

lion brand waterford jacket. this knit coat is done in one piece and uses the woolease thick and quick yarn. my friend in st. louis actually knit it. we'd get on the phone daily for 1/2-2 hours and go row by row so we'd both be on the same row going in the same direction. it was the only way she could get this done as she got so confused at the neck, when you had to bind off stitches but in another section add stitches. whew it's done. short for me but versatile for the fall. when i got the coat i had to sew up all the seams. was easy going from right front at knee to end of the sleeve. i also had to do the 8 rows of ribbing garter rows on each sleeve.

knit pineapple and diamond afghan

garden update








pineapple section

diamonds section, its seed stitch

child hat, daisy and sunflower

knit daisy hat

for the craft show in a few weeks.

knit sunflower hat

books i'm reading july

x follow the stars home by luann rice
x the beach house by jane green - newly converted beach house on nantucket. a bunch of different people come for the summer.
x the geometery of sisters by luanne rice located in newport, more like de la salle academy in ewport.
x montana man by barbara delinsky
x land of enchantmnt by jante dailey
x lone calder star by janet dailey
x beach girls by luanne rice
x the perfect summer by luanne rice
x summer light by luanne rice
x what matters most by luanne rice
x dance with me by luanne rice
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x a man to call my own by johanna lindsay
x dream country by luanne rice
3 harlequin romance novels
x second chance by jane green
x to have and to hold by jane green
x high country bride by linda lael miller
x eric clapton by eric clapton
x angels all over town by luanne rice
x passing through paradise by susan wiggs - newport, a house being restored, murder mystery
x green calder grass by janet dailey
x cloud nine by luanne rice
x summers child by luanne rice
x twilight whispers by barbara delinsky
x homeplace by anne siddons
x edge of winter by luanne rice=about RI, middletown sachueset point

knit tea cozy

for craft show in a few weeks. someone had requested one last night. if they show up this year i'll have it.

has slot for teapot handle.

nana's tea towel

while visiitng nana the other day after watching her try to do the tea towel toppings i told her i'd take them home, cut each one in half and then sew a seam and do a starter row. she can then crochet the topper on each one for Christmas gifts. we plan to visit with her again this weekend as Dee has decided the living room needs to be rearranged cuz she fell into the corner nd couldn't get up so had to call lifeline which called the local fire dept.

i now have 10 towels, cut in half and seamed and first row done for her, which is actually 20 towels for her to do.

wide stripe cardigan, done

garden june 26th

sweater completed, with buttons

progress

eye doc appt wnt well, stable, pressure is up to 12's, has me concerned.

finished sleeves of wide stripe cardgan.
got almost right done on coas sweater with vicky. left her with 30 rows to do for the weekend.

wide stripe cardigan

sleeves, note landline at first row. it's a big tangled mess working both sleeves at once=4 strands of yarn

wide stripe cardigan

this is a similiar one at Express store.



it's not raglan sleeve but you get the idea.






this is the one i'm doing, turquoise and white stripes.

stat of the sleeves, had an awesome idea to run a landline at the first row so i can later determine how much border rows i want.

child hat, wow wow wubbzy

knit wubbzy hat, did hands and tail a lot different than the original one. the other one was just too bulky to be worn.