Hilary's Musings

It was an amazing start to the month here in our northern desert.  Sunsets shifted from pink and burgundy tones reflecting the colours of smoke bush and buddleia. The early nights were balmy, nothing like the heat of summer nights.  These nights are those you savour, where you sit on the deck and feel the warm breeze knowing that soon it will be too cold to be out and windows will get shut. This month has been all about my first test knitting project.  I was accepted by @this.bird.knits to knit a gorgeous sweater in colour work with fibre from @autumn&indigo.  Lovely independent designer and independent dyer.   My challenge was to knit a full pullover sweater in 6 weeks. I made it! It is a wonderfully easy sweater to wear and the fibre is relaxed and soft.  It feels like a favourite already Readying myself for fall and winter I also took time to begin to wash up two gorgeous Romney fleeces.   One white and one grey.  The white one i...

Starting August The heat has already begun and it's not yet 8 in the morning.  It will get to mid 30's today and in protected areas around the house, up in the high 30's.  The nasturtiums are spent ~ it's too hot on the deck for them and the zucchini is struggling.  This is the first year I tried them up here, next year they will go down in pots in the cool, hosta bed.  Really all I want is salad blooms and squash blossoms to saute and stuff!  The lavender, yarrow and globe thistle in the front garden are giving their last to the pollinators that come in this area where there is little.  The grasses are loving it and stretching up in soft waves. I continue to dabble at many things.  My goal is to refine my work this year and hopefully as more years come.  To pay attention to the little details, the finishings, the refinement of stitches.  I am also working through all my unfinished projects.  I think they clutter your psyche a...