LoraHughes

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to knitting

The Larch Peds are getting a test drive today. Wish them luck! #knitting @knitting

Inside daytime. Natural light. Same pair of socks now on a person's feet.

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

I lifted the grapevine & brought it with us last autumn. It lived. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

So 5:45 pm & our guest is still here. Pretty certain this is the male who's been visiting, unlucky in love - the female won't give him the time of day.

When I checked earlier, he was breathing deeply & had his head resting on the side, definitely asleep. I think, since I brought the film crew this time, we woke him up. @gardening #gardening

Outside, daytime. Camera focused from above on me lifting the lid off the hedgehog feeder to show the hedgehog curled up inside.

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

11:30 am & the hedgehog is still in the feeder. Has he moved in? #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Cherry tree outside my bedroom. #garden @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Didn't expect that when I went to tidy the feeding station this morning. Hog's usually gone before 5am. This was around 6:45. Left it alone for now but will have another peak later in the avoe. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

More of the ornamental onions have come up. #gardening @gardening

Outside daytime. Another ornamental onion in a different large pot with other plants. This onion isn't as far uncurled as the other, so has no middle pocket.

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Colour in the geranium buds. Hope these survive the magpies who ate the buds on another geranium before it could open. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Woodwardia unfurled. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Appletini flowers look like they're shouting. I love these 2 little trees. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

A little gift from one of the wild things roaming our garden. No other rowans on the street, so quite pleased it's moved here. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Amazing, the joy this little green bit of stuff gives me. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Holly flowers. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

I didn't expect these guys to be blooming now. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

1st bluebell. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Ah, here you are again, Monday. You're lucky these 'uns showed up with you. Just when I think I love one layer of spring blooming the best, the next one comes along. #gardening @gardening

Outside, daytime. Close up of the forget-me-nots. Set in gravel, they have medium green, soft looking leaves with tiny, 5 petal blue flowers that have white bits in a star shape in the middle with yellow in the exact middle.

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to knitting

So here I sit, smug in the knowledge that by Larch Peds sock #3, I've mastered the tricky Lola's Pickup Line gusset method.

Then I notice I'm knitting on the wrong needle. What a marooooooooon. #knitting @knitting

(The longer, green needle with the new stitches on it is connected to the pickup line & definitely not the one I should be knitting onto. The needle I should be using is the other green one just under the stitch counter.)

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Mystery peony fully flexing its leaves. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

The fig tree's back! Hope to get figs this year. Last year's drought knocked it for a loop. But hey, that's some gorgeous foliage it's got going there, so it's nice to have around even w/o the fruit.

Optimism is a gardener's best friend & worst enemy. #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

The self seeded columbine has a bud. Looks like it's going to be a light colour. I do hope so, altho I won't kick over a purple one. #Gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to knitting

Finished 1st adjustments sock. Love all her hints except toe grafting. W/o a silicon cord, the Kitchener's much faster. May try w/scrap yarn for the 2nd sock.

Side by side w/first try. I went down both a needle & pattern size, plus used the same yarn for entire sock. I do like a thicker yarn for ribbings, heels, & toes, but you can see in this pattern, a thicker yarn lining distorts the cuff.

Will knit this designer again. Definitely will do more Larch Peds.

#knitting @knitting

Inside daytime, natural light. The sock now sits on the pillow to the right of my first try at this pattern. The first sock is larger & as said in the message, the cuff is a bit widened by using a thicker yarn on the inside. The yarn on this sock follows the same colour pattern.

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to knitting

I was going to wait until this sock was done before posting yet another photo of it, but I really love this yarn. Larch Peds socks. #knitting @knitting

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Queen of the Prairie is on scene. #Gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

The ornamental onions have buds! #gardening @gardening

LoraHughes, 1 month ago to gardening

Another pot of chaos. This one has a loropetalum spilling out the front with columbine to the right, wild geranium in the back & you can just see the hops vine creeping up the trellis. Again, another pot things were jammed into to facilitate our move last autumn. #gardening @gardening