Well today was a beautiful autumn Sunday, dry and bright with a strong cool breeze stirring the plants etc. Just the type of day I love.
Spent some time sitting outside under the gazebo knitting. I'm working on a tank top for my middle daughter, it did start out for my youngest daughter, who when I showed her a photo once over half way up the back , she said she didn't like the colours ! Luckily my middle daughter did, so I have undone and restarted it in a bigger size for her. Today I got to finishing the first ball of 100g of wool. I'm not far off of finishing what is the back and will then be able to start the front. I am trying to to wander off and start knitting smaller doll sized items or it will get put aside for another year or more !.
It's wider than shown as now I have decreased for the armhole, the sides have rolled in ,when I put it out for the photo. But this is the biggest piece I have to knit as the front has v neck and there are no sleeves.
Just need to keep knitting a few rows every day and it will soon be done and I can start on other things.
On the sewing front. . . . no sewing has been done, I know maybe I need to try doing the same with that, a bit of sewing each day ! maybe I will try that starting this week coming.
We are still awaiting the new radiator, so the bedroom is just waiting. But now the weather is changing as the season changes, we have started putting plants away in the greenhouse that will need protection from cold and rain.
The outside table top has been cleared of plants and replaced with some geraniums which should last until the first frosts.
The greenhouse shelves are now filling up.
So the coming month, October, which is already just days away !, will be spent getting ready for the coming winter, bedding down plants, putting things away, clearing space for those things to be stored and also getting rid of those things that are no longer needed.
The handsome Robin was todays headliner, he's wondering if his siblings and himself , will also get the preparing for winter treatment or will they be shivering until December , like last year ! So I have promised I will start with the boys first this time ( I think he didn't even get changed last winter but don't remind him ! ) So that's another small /long job to add to the now ever growing list.
On the doll front, a few small things have moved on , including a book on dolls along with a few no doll related items. Among them a large China platter, that I had boxed up a couple of months back as I had just the perfect box to keep it safe for it's journey, so that box had been sitting around waiting for someone to buy the platter. Now that space is back , so very happy that's now found a new home. I have a couple of things , non doll related, to sell but don't have a suitable box for them, so despite my many box hoard, I will need to find them boxes before I can put them on sale ! You just cannot win some times !
I still need to get into my doll studio and overflow storage and get things sorted and moved on. Maybe October will be the month I get hard with all these 'props' and get some proper space found.
Much to my own surprise, absolutely nothing doll related has arrived this week ! I even managed to resist Rosie's shoe release , which is a first !
So I will wish you all a happy healthy week ahead
Dee
Crikey! You must knit fast Dee, that would take me a week to get that far.
ReplyDeleteSpring is upon us, so is the hayfever, let me recap. What I thought was hayfever, turned into a sore throat, then a hacking cough, a couple of days in bed before me re-emerging today still not fully recovered, but better than what I was yesterday. Now I need to get into the garden, but I simply cannot be bothered today, so I will let you take the lead on that my lovely while I grab your wish for a happy healthy week ahead.
Good luck with getting those boys dressed for winter!
Big hugs,
X
It took me a couple of weeks to knit the back shown as I did leave it and go back every so often and knit a bit more before I decided to get on with it !
DeleteSorry you have been ill but good to hear you are now up even if still needing to rest. No rushing back into the fray , take your time , you don't want to go back to bed.
The poor Robin is still waiting for a jacket never mind some long trousers, the weather will need to get a lot colder before that happens ;)
Hugs x
Hi Dee!!! I saw your blog in Xanadu's reading list and decided to come and see. I love dolls and gardening so I feel right at home! Interesting to see you treat geraniums as annuals because of the weather. Where I live (Chile) winter is mild so they are perennial for us. My mom used to have lots of them near the driveway when I was little. Maybe I should add some in my own garden too.
ReplyDeleteRobin looks great amongst the flowers, like he's ready to help you out in the garden.
Lovely to see you :) Yes the winters here would kill these style pf geraniums off , they can be saved if put undercover in a greenhouse, of taken out of the earth and dried and wrapped in newspaper and stored somewhere dry and dark . I love how lovely and bright they are in the garden.
DeleteRobin loves being outside :)