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Earlier this month DH and I went on a road trip through Michigan and north Wisconsin, in a trip that involved a surprising number of boats. We started out by taking the car ferry ( the SS Badger ) from Wisconsin to Michigan, which was a fun trip! It takes about 4 hours to cross Lake Michigan, and the ferry people try to make it a good time. There are cafes, a bingo room and a gift shop on board, though of course you can just lounge and look out at the water and scenery. Then we drove up the west coast of Michigan, stopping for some delicious cherry pie and to do a little rockhounding on the beach for Petosky stones. We did find a few petosky stones, though that is not what’s in the picture. I just thought that grouping looked interesting Then we crossed the massive and kind of scary bridge to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and spent a few days in Sault St. Marie. The big attractions there for us were the museum ship Valley Camp and a boat t...

Whew! It’s been a while since I posted. DH and I were on a road trip through Michigan and north Wisconsin last week. More about that after I organize my pictures. However, I do have some knit-related things to share from the trip. First, I got to just one yarn shop on the trip – Moonspun Wool in Marquette MI, which is in the upper peninsula. If you are ever in the area, I do recommend a stop. They have lots of yarns, tools, and books for knit and crochet, and also some felting and embroidery kits as well. You can see Mr. QuiteaYarn in the husband chair up at the front, patiently playing on his phone I came away with two of their house yarns! The other knitty news is that I finished a pair of socks I have been working on in calls and in the car for some time now. I didn’t use a pattern, just my usual two at a time, toe up recipe. The yarn is a Hobbii self-striping from their Halloween colors – Scary Sock Wool in the Poisoned...

I finished two different projects over the last couple of days, one I have been working on for a while and one very quick one. First, the big one. My argyle sweater is done! The sleeves are even, it’s just hanging on the hangar goofy. The back and sleeves are plain, so the front is the only patterned part. But that is enough! The pattern is Peggy Sue cardigan, designed by Anne Berk. The yarn is from the kit for the pattern from Craftsy (or Blueprint or whatever it was calling itself at the time). It is Cloudborn Highland Sport. My only modification is I changed it to a V-neck, as I don’t really like round or close necklines and it is an easy fix. My second FO is a Mithrola necklace , design and kit by Laura Nelkin. You can’t tell it from this picture, but it is very flashy and sparkly, because it is knitted out of chain! Unfortunately you can’t block chain (LOL) so the draped bits with the bead shift around quite a bit. I’m still wran...

Things are looking up somewhat in the garden! We got some nice rain yesterday and overnight, so this is the first day I haven’t had to water in quite a while. The vegetable boxes are all doing pretty well, though not entirely to plan. But that is OK! We have a lot of green tomatoes, so will probably be buried in them shortly. There are a lot of vines and flowers going on in the pumpkin box, but I don’t see any actual pumpkins yet. So I guess we will see on that. The flowers at the front of the house are a little sad this year, but what’s there is still pretty. And finally the big news! The grape vines we planted last year have one (1) bunch of grapes on them, and the apple tree from last year has two (2) apples! We were honestly not expected anything from them for a couple more years, so it’s a happy surprise. How about you? If you are gardening this year, how is that going?