Photo a Day--Where you ate breakfast

Photo a Day--Cold

These have been especially cold lately...Brrrrrrr!

Grow 'lil celery

So I'd read the other day that if you save the bottom (the whorl where the stalks come from) of celery stalks, you can replant them to grow a new plant.  I decided to try it out and see...

Cut and put in warm water.

I cut the whorl off and put it in a saucer of water.  I think I kept it in the house for a good week, before I put it out in the garden.

Here he is after 3 days in the soil.

I hope that we do have some success with this, because we do eat a lot of celery.

Photo a Day--Younger you

I loved my uncle's kit car!  

Photo a Day--Inside your wallet

Since I don't have a wallet, all you get is a pic of my utility bag.

Photo a Day--Shadow

A mere shadow of her former self

Where have you been?

So I know yesterday I rather gushed about the latest issue of Knitty, which I totally DO love, and makes me want to abandon everything else...but I do have some neat stuff on the needles that I feel I should finish first.

This is Willoughby by Jared Flood, from the book Made in Brooklyn.  I was gifted this great yarn a while back, which I am pretty sure is discontinued.  It's Vivant by Brunswick yarns, and is a wool/mohair blend.

Specifically 75% Australian Zephyr Virgin Wool, and 25 % Texas Kid Mohair.  Color is listed as Lt Grey Heather #2061 Lot # 4 833.  It is really wispy and light, soft to the hand, but just a little bit prickly to the neck. This yarn was tricky for me to wind, as the fibers had already begun to full together some.  So this yarn would have been great for felting.  I handle it pretty carefully, because of that, and also how delicate it looks. 

I'm kind of kicking myself some for putting this stole down…I've finished a few crochet projects and made some jewelry instead, and now it's been soo unreasonably warm, that I'll have to put it away for next year.  I've kinda been avoiding finishing, because there is an ever-so-slight jog at the center.  This stole is knitted from the center out, and the provisional cast on moves the picked up side over by 1/2 a stitch, which is maddening for me.  Ummm, I dunno what OCD is, why do you ask? LOL.  But I'm going to just suck it up and finish it, already.  Because I have some stash diving to do...