We’re having a heatwave suddenly. So I made a new shirt. I used some of the pretty gingham seersucker that I got in Japan. It’s the Fern shirt from Seamwork and it’s perfectly loose and light for this weather. Don’t look too closely – I was doing some baking and didn’t realize I had a sprinkling of…

I tried a new pattern from Liesl and Co. – it's the Kyoto Dress. I saw this dress online and I've wanted to emulate it. So I made sort of a wearable muslin. I found the fabric at a church rummage sale and only spent $5. Is it taffeta? Maybe? Seems like a home dec.…

Just one daughter celebrating with Brian this year. He cooked his own Father's Day dinner. Yum. Earlier in the morning I came down and found him having coffee and wearing my sweater (?). We love him.

I finished my latest knitting project the other day. It's a chunky little cardigan. And since we've had such a frustratingly cold spring I've been throwing it on all the time. The pattern is called Audrey's Cardigan by Elizabeth Smith. The yarn is a really soft Merino wool. I'm really pleased with the fit and…

Here are a bunch of photos that Brian and Bea took in and near Dresden. Brian flew over and helped her get settled so they were able to explore a little together. She's been taking her German class for about a week and a half now and she's been riding her bike all around the…

Lately I've been thinking about knowing when to stop and when to start.  When knitting I tend to keep going and going when I really should stop. I make sweaters longer than I intend to. I've been trying to improve the fit for my knitting projects. Here's my latest project where I really tried not…

Bea is done with high school. Wow, hard to believe. Here she is heading to her last day. She won't be going to her graduation ceremony because her German lessons in Dresden start the same day. Here she is packing her bike into Brian's bike bag so she can ride around Dresden. I'll take her…

I have mostly photos of my garden and things I've made but what's really on my mind lately is my oldest daughter. I feel like we're in a period of holding our nerve. You see she has her heart set on going to college in a German speaking country. While all the other seniors at…

I had just one crust of rough-puff in the freezer so I made sort of a galette/pie. We sometimes call this driveway pie since the rhubarb grows right along the driveway. Mmmm.

A bad photo of one of my old friends – Mr. Bunny. A fellow gardener lamented the large number of bunnies this year. They are big and healthy and numerous! Someone mentioned that it's because they had so many cicadas to gobble up last summer. Maybe? I like the bunnies because they are cute and…