CALM

The blue socks are done-I don't know why I call them faux-cabled 

because it does have cables. 

I guess it is because you don't use a cable needle-just knit the left stitch before the right one and take them both off at the same time!  Easy!  These are  knit in Stroll Manatee Tonal.  

64 sts on #1 needles.

I played with some zentangle drawing for a bookmark. 

 It is indeed very relaxing to play with the different patterns.

Remember the replacement orchid I bought after trying to repot the three I used to have?  Well, it is blooming!  I am so proud of its efforts to be healthy again!  It was pretty pitiful when I bought it from the 1/2 off table!

It is an incredibly colored bloom!

Far From Normal

We began yesterday by exercising our citizen's right to vote for the President of the United States, assorted other justices and judges, etc.  The line wasn't too bad and the wait was only 20 minutes.  While we don't have colorful leaves this time of year, we do have the rain tree which is covered with yellow flowers and red seed pods!  If you squint, it looks just like colorful Autumn leaves! lol

When we came home, we went out back and cut down a Camphor tree (Bill wants them off our property because they are invasive)  so as long as it was going, I went along and pointed out interesting joins, crotches and sizes of cuts so I would have a stock of green wood!

Soon, you will see this pretty and aromatic wood as a bowl or plate!  (Camphor smells a bit like Vicks but a bit more menthol--it is very pleasing and the bowl will retain the light scent much like cedar does.)

This fungus was a first for Bill and I!  It stands 6" tall-very much like a sculpture!  It is called a Clathrus crispus--a red cage fungus.  I hope more will form.  

The newest sock is on the needles!  It's a zig zagular pattern which I have done numerous times but like it just the same!  I decided not to use twisted stitches this time because I am lazy.

Now I am not so sure I should've done that because the stitches just blend into the background.  I am going to rip back and try the twisted stitches and if it still doesn't stand out, I will knit vanilla socks and let the colors speak for themselves!
 

INKTOBER DAY 19-DIZZY  This wasn't exactly something that thrilled me but I did watch a lot of videos about optical illusions and that was fun! lol

Inktober Catch up!

I visited with my neighbor today and as always, I enjoyed a tour of her flowers! 

 This one is Aristolochia Gigantea and it sure is gigantic--

the blossom is 8-9" long and 5" wide at least!

She also has two different kinds of pitcher plants...

.....what beautiful and unusual plants!

I enjoyed a catch-up for the drawing prompts from INKTOBER 2020!  

I drew with a water activated black pencil with just a few colored pencil accents.

This is a tilapia, a fish Bill is trying to raise in our pond.

This one is for Bulky and my first thought was bundling kids in their snowsuits! 

 This is my daughter at two...

For the prompt blade, Bill came up with this idea.

Gratefully this is not a problem for us anymore...just one of the many perks 

of having several cats in the house/yard! 

And todays had to be in color because it just wasn't sparking the memory I was aiming for-

our old console radio we had when I was growing up.  

I sure loved that big old thing!

Sewing and Drawing

I will be sewing these blocks together today....

I have enough of the brown to use for borders, too.

I have two paintings--I just added a bit of color to the bird in the lightbulb drawing,

then I drew the cliff again in ink this time with a bit of watercolor to accent it. 

 I have a better perspective this time-now  I can move on to another idea!

 

Ready to do Something....

The borders went on without too much drama!  

It gives a nice frame to those large hexies.

I loaded it onto the frame-first in the queue! 

 I will free motion quilt this is some design. 

 I just don't know exactly what yet!

I drew this silly bird in a bulb;  it must be something a lot of people did for Inktober because I saw several different ideas on this same theme. 

 I have to decide if I want to paint it or leave it a pencil drawing. 

 I guess I wasn't up to decisions yesterday!

 

And Hats Off

The last trio of hats is completed!  The one of the hand painted WoolEase yarn is called S'Mores but I think that only fits if every one you made ended up in the ashes!  Silly names.  Great yarn and just a straight forward pattern on #7 needles.  A  perfect intermission knitting project.  I think it will be mittens next.

 When a bit of adventure happened yesterday, late afternoon, my schedule was a bit upturned! The doctor's called to say that the UTI culture was back and I was on the wrong antibiotic again and so could I please come in for an injection?  Thankfully, Bill was in the house with me because it was storming outside and so we headed out.  By the time I was out of the doctors, he had ordered and picked up pizza for dinner-we did eat one in the car before the ride home!  The good news is that we should have this infection on the run now;  the bad news is that we are running out of viable options for fighting the uti's because of my allergic reactions to so many antibiotics and the bacteria being resistant to the ones I can take.  This leaves only the ones that can be injected or the ones that I would have to go to the hospital and get through an IV.  I won't borrow troubles that haven't happened yet;  right now I long to feel some relief and to have the strength to up and about!  Needless to say, I didn't get to put water color to the drawing but I will do so today!