Hello!  Happy Summer! 

Since last I blogged:

Oregon Coast family wedding (with all my kids and grandkids minus one son-in-law)

Sarah and her kids here for 3 weeks

Camping trip (5 adults, 4 kids — first camp-out with the grandkids and they loved it in spite of the rain!)

Day trip to Oregon for a long-overdue visit with my Mother

A 4-day trip to New York City to see our son Geoff in Queen of the Night — which was incredible! Also saw Pippin , MoMA & The Metropolitan Museum of Art (sooooooo much glorious art!) — and ran around Manhattan with Geoff and Cait visiting their favorite spots

And here at home we've done zoo trips, parks & playgrounds (love the spray parks!), Raniers baseball, squirt gun fights and games and badminton and pushing grand-kids on swings,daily visits to George's Mother, a whole lot of laundry & cooking (mostly George, not so much me, I confess), prepping and list-making and packing and un-packing….

Yes, there has been knitting and project plotting and yarn shopping too!  The Spring/Summer projects are still going…and some Summer projects have sprung up too, as well as some Autumn projects (these are sitting politely, if smugly, in their skeins at the moment — their time will come).

Sarah and I hit Rainy Day Yarns in Gig Harbor (twice!) and so the Quick Summer Q'mitl was conceived — a light-weight piece suitable for wearing over camis on balmy days (when even lacey wool is too warm). Cream and mocha colors in cotton blends and linen blends — zested with a brassy gold mohair.  It is coming along nicely — tho perhaps not as quickly as I blithely intended…

Could not resist Claire Garland's fetching  Knit the Alphabet!  I am rendering the grand-kids' initials in wool. Gwen's G is done — and I am halfway through Max's M with Ev's E and Owen's O to follow.  In other grandchild knitting news, I miraculously obtained fuschia Baby Ull (not in their current palette) for Sonja's baby's "Yzma Blanket" (matching her vision!).

I continue to be besotted with Stephen West's designs — and selected and ordered Blue Moon yarn for Royally Striped — one of the the aforementioned Autumn projects.  Even as I continue on his shawl Vertices Unite (with yarns harvested from our stash).  More Autumn yarn awaits — a few delicious finds from Rainy Day Yarns and a set of Koigu from Purl Soho (my NYC souvenir!).

I am cultivating more projects than usual (usual, for me, being a couple more than a sensible knitter would have "on the needles" at one time anyway) — but I am also reading 5 books at present, so that shows how my mind is working these days :) 

A summer garden of yarn blossoming on my neeedles — and, hopefully, a timely harvest of knitted goods as the season progresses!