The Kilt

Okay so it's been a while since my fingers have navigated here. All in all my garden was a success. I've already made two batches of tomato sauce and since I didn't feel like making any more at the moment I brought them all to work for my coworkers to enjoy. I've also had a lot of beans which I've proceeded to make some dilly beans out of. One has jalapenos the other doesn't. I might make some more as my bean plants are thriving. The baby beans are just so cute! I'll post photos later. But again I have a bumper crop and have brought a boat load to work. The bok choy has given me more than I can eat as well though of the three I managed to grow one bolted. Again my spinach bolted! Such a tricky plant. Come the end of this month I'll start digging up my potatoes. I'm excited about that. Of course I know I'll have more than I can eat before they start sprouting.

CRAFTING:

For my cousin I'm making a kilt. I think he should like it. I'm going to attempt to find a silver smith to make a kilt pin with our family crest and locate some tartan that has our colors. It should be a unique and well loved project. At least it will be close to my heart!

The shrug's coming slow. Sadly I'm not really liking it anymore. I will however finish it! Once I finish the other sleeve as much as I can with my pink yarn I'll have to go out and get some in gray. I ran out of that pink and can't seem to find the same dye lot so I opted for another color.

As I'm working through it I've thought of another way to knit it. I'll try that next.

I've almost finished the embroidered bib. All I have left is to attach straps, so I'll need some Velcro and ribbon or make some straps from extra fabric. It's a pain to make but I hope people like it. I'm working on a second one as I wait for the money to hit up Joanns for the Velcro.

Oh boy what else am I working on?! Oh! A wee dress. It's for two little girls ... okay technically it's two li'le dresses. For Mallory it's going to have a butterfly embroidered on the skirt, perhaps many wee butterflies flying up and around the skirt. This idea started when she saw me embroidering the bib and asked if it was for her. Only small children are cute in their selfishness. Then she asked if I could make her one so I told her I'd make a dress for her and asked if she'd like a butterfly.

I have so many projects right now I'm not sure I've listed them all. All well!

REAL LIFE:

In real life I'm teaching myself Japanese. I had been trying to convince a coworker/friend to teach me but that wasn't working out so well. So now I've got an audio book and I'm going to attempt to get onto mango languages and learn it. Then when she calls me ... if she ever calls me I'll answer in Japanese. I'm sure it'll amuse her. She can laugh at my accent or mess ups ... that is of course if she can understand me!

Not to mention that my crafting time is being cut really short. I've got 4 jobs now! It's crazy! Two are serious part time gigs the other two are random odd jobs. My taxes are going to be fun this year! Oh, and my house hunt! I'm so excited to be able to tell my cousin to start looking again!

Photos to come!