The Oregon Autumn Cardigan is moving along. I've passed the armholes, where the fronts are divided from the back. You can see the motifs on the right side are a bit higher than on the left. That's normal with knitting in the round. (It's called a jog.) When I cut the steek and pick up stitches for the button and buttonhole bands, they will line up. If I were knitting a pullover with these motifs, I would have the new round start under the arm, where it's not too obvious.
I put the body stitches at the armhole on waste yarn and cast on new stitches for a steek above them. I'm about 1" above the waste yarn now, but I have all the stitches back on one needle now, so it's harder to get another good photo.
Meanwhile, the new book is moving along. I wanted to include Pam, the new character, in it, so I did a photo shoot this week to add her to an existing story I plan to use in it.
Stay tuned for more information about that.
Charlie's brother, Jim, came back from Arizona this week and stopped in
Bend on his way to his home in Florence. He arrived on Tuesday and left the next day to stop to visit a friend who lives north of us. While he was here, we took the pups to Good Dog Trail for a hike and some off-leash time. We finally found the easy way to get to the river.
The current isn't too strong there, and the pups went into the water to get a drink. (It's so much tastier than the filtered water we bring from home.) It isn't warm enough to swim yet, though.
This part of the trail is really beautiful, and it was a lovely day.
I had my Walk for a Dog app running, but I must have accidentally paused it. When I realized it was paused, we had already gone on, so there's a gap.
Jim was keeping track of our hike with his watch, though. When we got back to the car, it said we had gone about 3.3 miles. It also keeps track of steps. That reminded me that my new hearing aids have that capability, too. I just have to remember to turn on my phone and the Bluetooth before I take my hearing aids out of the charger.
Jim has moved along, but we're planning to have a joint camping trip or two this summer.
We had some spinach ravioli this week. We have a new basil plant, so I cut some leaves up to sprinkle on top with some tiny tomatoes, a splash of olive oil, salt and pepper, and a little Parmesan.
Also moving along are our bulbs. These are the hyacinths. (The fence needs to be replaced. One of our neighbors drove over it when everything was covered with snow and he was trying to help us with his snowblower.)
We have dwarf/miniature daffodils, too. We think the squirrels ate our regular daffodils.
The tulips are coming up, but it's a bit early for them to bud yet. Our lilac bushes have little leaf buds.
I did get the binding strips for Daphne's quilt sewn together and pressed. I'll be all ready to sew the binding on the quilt when it's ready. I didn't get her doll sent off yet, but I have it all ready to go, and there's plenty of time. I hope to do that today.
Meanwhile, Zachary is enjoying his new quilt.
You can just see a bit of his head sticking out at the top.
Now moving along to finish Charlie's T-shirt quilt.
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What's on my loom: Still in its corner under the windows, not warped, but dusted, at least.
What's on my sewing machine: Binding for Daphne's quilt.
What's in The Doll's Storybook: We needed warming up, so this week's story is about how the weather gets hot in the summer. Why is that? What can we do to cool off? Here's Heat Wave.
What's on my iPad/iPhone: Listening to After Death by Dean Koontz. I'm still reading Elfen Königin by Holly Black, translated from English.
What's in my wine glass: SpiceRack Zinfandel 2019. We've had this before Nice!
What's my tip of the week: As we're in an election year, we're beginning to get requests for money disguised as polls. They tend to go through a series of questions designed to get you to say "yes" (i.e., "Do you agree that....) and then they ask you for money. Watch out for polls that are actually dirty tricks, though. You may get a poll that starts out just asking you about yourself (gender, race, age, etc.) and if you plan to vote, which candidate you would vote for if the election were held today, and so on, like a normal poll. That's fine, but then they might go on and ask if you would be more likely to vote for Candidate X if you knew (list of admirable things about the candidate) and would you still want to vote for Candidate Y if you knew (list of unsubstantiated negative charges and rumors). This happened to me, and I reported it to the campaigns of X and Y, as well as to the local political parties. Then I complained directly to the polling agency. This is a cheap version of mud-slinging commercials. Don't fall for it! There are also artificial intelligence recordings that duplicate the voice of a well-known person or candidate telling you not to vote or not to vote by mail. These should be reported, as well.
Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes.
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Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.
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