This lovely thing used up almost every last bit of my leftovers of rustic fingering weights.  I had them bagged up and was going to donate them when at the last minute I thought of this project and went out to my car to rescue it. I used 11 different yarns that I listed on my Ravelry page, but I'd guess there were many more as some of the tiniest bits weren't labeled. Read on to find out why I LOVE this free pattern so much!

Are you ready for an explosion of color? Please join me in the garden filled with roses, zinnia seedlings and a burgeoning vegetable garden. I've got lots of pictures to share, so let's go!

I thought it would be fun to share my Ravelry favorites from the last few weeks. I troll Ravelry every day looking for treasures, and if you don't have the time for that, don't worry, I'll do it for you! My plan is for every few weeks to share my "best of Ravelry". I'm excited for this first edition, so let's go!

Our Japanese wisteria floribunda is at its most amazing right now and in fact we have never seen it look this beautiful. There are easily hundreds and hundreds of racemes, most of them 3 feet long! My pictures don't do it justice; you really have to see it to believe it. It has obviously loved all our rain. We think this will be a good garden year and I hope to make a few garden posts this summer. I'll be sharing our rose explosion which should happen in a week or two, our vegetable garden, the herbs and annual flowers, and more. This is still a knitting blog and I have been knitting an awful lot, but in spring and summer, knitting has to share me with the garden. Please read on, there's a lot to see!