Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Yarn Along - Flowers for Spring

Joining Ginny for the Yarn Along!


Knitting wise I am still in my green tweed sweater for Mouse.  I am making progress, but it doesn't seem like it and I wanted to do something else. As I was reading blogs I saw this at My Rose Valley and decided to do a few. I am thinking I may make the garland or try to figure out a way to connect them into a flower blanket. I whipped up these guys in a few house during dinner and game night.

Reading I am mostly trying to just read blogs and magazine this week as they are easier to walk away from to get stuff done. I really need to work on my time management or self-control. Reading the entire book, excluding the things that need to be done because the story is good is not a good idea.


I am starting to plan my garden. This sketch is a first draft. The curly things are the blueberry and blackberry bushes I planted last year. I am not sure if they survived the dry summer, much less the winter. The horseradish and chives are beautiful. I want zinnas, hollihocks, Madder, indigo, apple mint, lemon verbenna, lemon balm, thai basil, basil, thyme, lavender, rosemary, rue, and lots more. I am thinking about ordering some container sized citrus this year too. & Cherries. & Figs.

17 comments:

  1. Wonderful flowers ... and I'm also drawing gardenplans.

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    1. It seems like the time to do it, hopefully it will hurry the snow away.

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  2. Those flowers are cute! I'm having a hard time with my book, as you read on my blog, so I have been reading more blogs as well.
    I love that you are planning your garden, I am doing the same thing, we want to make our veggie garden bigger, so I am pretty excited about being able to grow more crops this time around.
    Thanks for stopping by!
    xxx

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    1. I am working on growing more of the things we actually eat and less of the weird stuff that I want us too eat!

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  3. Thanks for visiting my blog! As I said, I am having the very same issue with reading. My house has dust bunnies and things around that need to be attended to....I am trying to get some stuff done today so I can snuggle up in bed tonight and read without the guilt! Lovely blog.

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  4. I've seen those flowers at her blog and they are so pretty. Dreaming about the garden sounds very familiar. I'm hoping for some warmer temperatures soon so I can really get started on it!

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    1. I know! I want to be gardening with dirt not a pencil!

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  5. Pretty crocheted flowers!
    My favorite part of our garden is my fig tree. We can't do without a winter's supply of fig jam. I just put in several rows of early greens. Now if I can get the fence up before the bunnies discover it!

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    1. We had a red fox move into the neighborhood, now I do not have a bunny problem. Fig's are Butterfly's favorite and I really like them fresh, had not thought about jam but that sounds good!

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  6. how lovely your flowers, and i LOVE your garden plans!

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    1. Thanks, looking forward to getting everything growing.

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  7. The flowers pattern is great! I love projects that you can make in a few hours, when you also have a long one on the go!

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    1. Exactly, three days of quickie flowers and some spinning and I am ready to tackle the sweater again!

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  8. thyme is such a great plant!
    try to put some thyme leaves in your chicken dishes, it adds a fantastic flavour!

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    1. We use thyme in a lot of things, I really like the smell of just walking in the herb garden.

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  9. Your garden plan is lovely! We've started thinking about ours too - I love spring!

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