Spinning About

I just put together my fairy garden. I can’t wait to see how it grows. The creeping plants are elven thyme, and a type of creeping mint, the name escapes me. And a miniature dianthus.

I finished my Tunisian crochet hat! Started it Wednesday night and finished it Thursday night. My hands were a little sore. This was an experiment to see if I could, there was no real pattern, just a YouTube video on how to cast on in the round. So I’m pretty pleased how it turned out. I love how the decreases made a cool pattern at the top of the hat. But I think I will decrease a little differently next time. I will mark this experiment success.

I thought I would share a little bit more of my garden. As I spend much of my time in the garden, and this is a place for me to share my passions. Top left, is “black” oxalis, which is really purple. I love how dainty it looks, I’ve put this in many places in my garden, and this is the only happy one. Then top right is creeping Jenny, I love the bright neon green color it adds to the garden. Just really adds interest. And the bottom is my clematis that I put in this spring. I thought I had killed it, and yet here is is preparing to bloom. I can’t wait to see how it looks next year when it’s very established. I’m hoping it will grow up the railing to the steps.

I am learning to Tunisian crochet in the round. Hoping to make a hat with it. I love how you cast on/ off with two different yarns, so I picked two colors, and I love the effect! I’ll post pictures as it progresses.

I thought I’d share my other passion, I spend a lot of my time gardening. I’m going to start posting a few random pictures of my garden. Here you see a Dutch iris, a pink bearded iris, and a Mexican primrose.

I made my daughter and I matching headbands. With a Tunisian simple stitch and yarn I dyed and spun myself. She isn’t too fond of things on her head but boy is it cute!!