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Memory lane

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Yesterday:

“Can you help me make the things you used to make when we were little?” she asked, when we talked about her upcoming birthday and wondered what to serve her guests.
Um, yes!
Cooking and baking with my now grown-up babygirl, reviving good memories. How fun is that?
Lots of fun, I tell you.

Candles

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I’m trying really hard to find something to post about that’s not knitting (but oh, I’m on a roll – stay tuned for that), so here are some candles again…
I know, it doesn’t get really exciting around here. But it was a nice, quiet weekend at home, just what I needed.

Lots of thinking

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I don’t recommend trying to invent a sweater without a pattern when you’re not feeling too well. It requires lots of thinking and thinking requires energy.
And that’s why this sweater had been in the making for six months or so (maybe even longer). But. I’m getting there. Just half a sleeve and then copy that one for the other sleeve. Maybe this weekend ?

Honey cowl

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Well, I finally finished a knitting project. Apart from a happy but short period in May (when I did finish something, but I never took pictures of it) 2015 was not a good year for knitting. Maybe this will get me back on track?

It’s the Honey Cowl. I knit the short version of this pattern before (my archives are still off line, so I can’t link to it) and while I was knitting this one I wasn’t sure it was the right decision to make the longer version. I thought it would feel bulky around my neck. Well, it doesn’t. In fact it feels so good and warm and soft that I don’t want to take it off, even when I’m inside.

Outside

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Well, yesterday it started raining before I got a chance to get outside. But today was an even sunnier day.
I thought I might go for a walk, but instead I worked in the front garden a bit. I never really did a proper “preparing for winter” clean up there, due to… well life happening.
I didn’t quite finish pulling all the weeds and trimming all the plants today, but does look better. So there’s that.
And I feel a whole lot better. And that’s even more important (note to self: get outside!)

It was fun

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… and this is the only picture I took on both evenings. I simply forgot my camera after that. Oh well, I guess that only proves that I had a really, really good time…

Thrift store treasures (2)

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Yesterday really was my lucky thrifting day. Besides the things I showed you yesterday I found The Chair.

I have been searching for The Chair for over a year now, to replace the Everybody-Has-One-of-These-Ikea-Chair. But I had a few requirements. It had to be small, sturdy (my family is not easy on chairs, they like to sit in ways that were not intended by the designers), antique or at least retro looking and cheap (since the other chair was still going strong it felt like unnecessary spending).

Yeah. Well. Not an easy list. I found sturdy, antique chairs that were way too big for our tiny living room. I found smaller, lighter chairs that wouldn’t survive long (I tried one of those a few years ago) and I found perfect chairs that cost way too much.
So the Everybody-Has-One-of-These-Ikea-Chair and I learned to live with each other. It is rather sturdy after all (though we have to put the frame back together every once in a while), and the cover can easily be washed to remove all the coffee stains we make. It is too big, but the girls love sitting in it. I don’t like that everyone seems to have this chair and I’m not really a big fan of Ikea, but it did the job.

Still, I kept looking for The Chair. And yesterday I found it. It looks retro, it’s small, but comfy, sturdy and heavy, can survive sitting (and hanging) in every possible way and it was cheap. So I bought it.
I didn’t see the label on the bottom until after I brought it home.
It’s from Ikea.
Oh well. I still like it.