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Today’s Bit of Beauty – 06/18/09

June 18, 2009June 18, 2009 Boyd

As Harald so rightfully challenged me last night, it’s time to get some pictures after promising two weeks ago to do so. Even though I’ve been gathering pictures for several weeks, I am going to start with a picture taken just this morning. Sorry it isn’t clearer, but these are among H’s most precious additions to the garden and they are blooming particularly beautifully this year. They are Martagon lilies, a very old type of lily. Now, if you aren’t familiar with them, you wouldn’t know that the blooms are impossibly small – probably no more than a couple of inches across. Click here to read a good primer on Martagons.

Socks for Jennifer

March 23, 2009March 24, 2009 Boyd

I just put the last stitch in when I got home from work tonight, so they aren’t done a day too soon. These are socks for Jennifer for when she goes into the hospital. I hope she enjoys wearing them as much as I enjoyed making them. The pattern is Nancy’s Lindberg’s basic knit-to-fit sock pattern, but I used a crosshatch lace pattern from Charlene Schurch’s More Sensational Knitted Socks for the calf and top of the instep.

A few pictures from our first baby shower

March 12, 2009 Boyd

My quilt buddies surprised me on Tuesday night and when I arrived for what I thought was our regular monthly get-together, they had a baby shower planned instead. If you’d like to see a few of the photos from that night, including the quilt they made for the little bambina, click here.

First pictures of the new nursery

March 8, 2009March 8, 2009 Boyd

Several people have asked to see pictures of the nursery, so I thought I would post a few. We got the room put back in order this morning and set up the portable crib and hung the valances and cleaned out the dresser and put all of Siri’s clothes away. This will give you a much better idea of how it all looks. The color is called “Northern Pear Tree” and it is from the No-VOC line of paints at Home Depot called Freshaire Choice. This was my first experience using No-VOC paints and I must tell you that it made the painting experience much more pleasant for me. And the room has virtually no new-paint smell at all, which is a very good thing.

That is Harald and Karin’s baby carriage from when they were born. It’s a Simo Babylux from Norway. They don’t make them any more.

You wanted a picture? … really???

February 19, 2009 Boyd

Why any of you would want to see a picture of me in the sweater is beyond me, but for those of you who asked for it, here it is. Taken at work this morning by a knitsib. Geez this sweater is warm. I gotta go get a glass of ice water!

My first fully completed sweater

February 18, 2009February 18, 2009 Boyd

Although this isn’t the first sweater I’ve begun, it is the first one I’ve finished. I’m still working on that dang Einstein coat. I must admit what at first seemed like a good idea (miles of garter stitch) quickly turned into some form of tedium. I’ve got the body of the thing done, but I have to do the sleeves to finish it. Anyway, back to this green beauty. It’s made out of Cascase 220 which I must tell you I like very much. The picture doesn’t do the yarn justice – it has these marvelous flecks of blue and yellow mixed in with the yarn, but the effect is very subtle. I’m glad I got this sweater done. I learned a lot of things in the process, the most helpful being those things I would do differently now that I know about them. But it is what it is and it will always be special because it was the first sweater I ever finished for myself.

New Socks!

January 21, 2009January 21, 2009 Boyd

Look at these gorgeous, I mean GORGEOUS, pair of new socks that just came off the needles a few minutes ago! They are made of the softest Marino wool I have ever had the pleasure of touching. And the colors? Turquoise, purple, rust, chartreuse – oh my! They were an absolute joy to make. I started them a few months ago (September maybe?), but have worked on them off and on over the past few months. I had to get them done because I have a very important pair of socks to make for a very important woman and I want to use my favorite wood needles, which were occupied with these until now. The wool came from a St. Paul dyer named Aiesha Celia.

Christmas in Lutsen

January 2, 2009 Boyd

We had one spectacularly sunny day while on the North Shore recently, and I snapped this photo from inside the living room showing the view down the hill with Lake Superior in the background.