I'm having a baby shower tea for 30 guests next Saturday and today I begin in earnest to plan the event.  This baby will be a boy, born in San Francisco in July and we all know that summer in San Francisco is perfect sweater weather.  Remember Mark Twain's funny quote, " The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."   I have a little collection of sweaters ready for this happily anticipated little fella, including this new red garter stitch jacket using Elizabeth Zimmerman's classic February Baby Sweater as a guide.

This is fast going and will be finished in a wink.

The nursery is decorated in Pottery Barn navy with touches of red and has a view of the Golden Gate Bridge.  Yes, really, I'm not kidding, a nursery view of the Golden Gate Bridge, and luckily that red bridge will match the nursery!







 



I'll also be scouting around the house to find other touches of navy and red that I can use for the event.

I made this redwork quilt about 25 years ago.

The mother-to-be will remember sitting on this needlepoint chair!

Hello!  I haven't had time to do much of anything lately, unless it has involved digging dirt and planting seeds.  We have been working full time in the garden this past week and it's shaping up beautifully.  Love being surrounded by electric green and the smell of dirt!  (I once owned a candle whose fragrance was "dirt",  no one liked it but me.)  Speaking of dirt, we, along with the help of our two gardeners, spent two days double digging our veg beds and importing 8 cubic yards of wonder soil.  Even with years of nurturing the soil with compost, it was tired, time for a major soil re-haul.  Also, last year we uncovered a well in the middle of our lawn and had it filled in, but still over the years it had caused our vegetable garden to sink at one end.  We moved the soil around to level it, added new soil, removed some old beds, replaced some, what a enormous job.  We have another weeks worth of work ahead of us, then it will be maintenance for the rest of the season.