Knitting? Not so much.

Okay... it's not just me.  Have you looked around the blogs lately.  Not a whole lotta knitting going on.  It's the season... or not... depending on how you look at it.  I actually have been doing a little knitting, but it's all the same green stockinette stitch on Dan's raglan.   I finished one sleeve and just finished the ribbing of the second one.  Sooner or later I'm going to have to figure out how I'm going to do the yoke and henley.  I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Thanks to my knitting pal, Jessica, I got an awesome package in the mail yesterday! I already had the book, but it's a great tiny book so I'll keep the extra copy in my purse for unexpected waiting/reading time.  The little card with baby feet has a pattern for a baby blanket on it.  Thanks Chica!  You do know my colors well!  Beautiful ocean colors in sport weight wool/hemp/mohair. I LOVE this yarn.  It'll make awesome socks.

We're wrapping up the school year here.  One more full day tomorrow and then on Thursday they go in for certificates and such and that's it.  Like Katy, I spent the day making cupcakes.  Daniel and Joe's bdays are in the Summer.  They always miss out on having cupcakes in class so I promised I'd do it the last week of school this year.  We have a tiny German oven and I made 40 so it took all day yesterday.  I finished just before the boys came home on the bus.  I love my little carrier that I bought here in Germany. 

It holds 24 in each layer so... yea... I can add.  That means I made 48... 49 if you count the one that I ate in between batches.  :-) 

I've been playing with the camera.  Little by little I'm learning to use it without doing everything in automatic.  Here's some photos I took of my flowers.   I planted them about two weeks ago:

Basket by my front doorClose up of the little flowers Window box on my kitchen window Close up of the tiny geraniums that I love here in Germany.

Comments

[Rachel]

The pictures are beautiful. I'm sorry to hear about everything that is going on in your life right now, the impending deployment and troubles with your son. As an Army wife myself, I understand the deployment issues. I'm wondering, where are you stationed in Germany? We're over here too, in the Kaiserslautern area. We've only been here since February, but like it so far.

[janet]

Your picture of the book Knit's End - Ian and I were getting coffee at Barnes & Noble in Glastonbury last week and the book was strategically placed so of course I added it to my armful of purchases (mostly knitting magazines and Spin Off. I thought I might append some of those quotes to my messages. My daughter-in-law in Seattle is a great one for doing that - now I can send her a few myself.

[Ali]

Your flowers look great and so does your sock yarn. I know what you mean about not very much knitting going on - its all this nice weather!! And those cakes look really yummy!

[Jenn]

YOu take beautiful pictures!

[Gracie]

What a fab carrier! I bet it comes in handy! There is not much knitting going on for me either, at least while I am at home.

[Jennifer]

Wow! I love the pics. I am so excited about the yarn, baby pattern, flowers and especially those cupcake carries (and the cupcakes, too).

[Becca]

delicious food and beautiful flowers ... I like the color of your yarn.

[Tracy]

Yarn, cakes and flowers, perfect combinations.

[Kathleen]

Cupcakes look great and I like that holder too. You better write your name on it with permanent marker when you do get back to the US! Sticky fingers and all... :) Lovely pics.

[Kary]

Such wonderful photos! - Thanks for sharing. That yarn is FABulous! N~joY!

[Chris]

Oh, I need one of those?? Where did you get that carrier, it's the first thing I noticed, cupcakes, no I didn't see any cupcakes. Good thing because I would have been drooling on the screen! Do you think I can mail order for one of those?

[Kathleen in Nuremberg]

Just tried to email you but got rejected from AOL - wanted to see what you thought about maybe having a knitter's day out/grill day in Forchheim. Just any random Sunday or even July 3. Drop me a note with your email address and we can plan the heck out of it.

[Kathleen in Nuremberg]

Holy cow - those flowers looks great! You totally need to pass some planting secrets over my way sister :) All I've got are leftover roses that I haven't managed to kill yet LOL

[LisaB]

The pictures of your flowers are gorgeous! What a welcome sign of color!

[Margene]

Chocolate, yarn and flowers...a perfect blog post;-)

[BrendaS]

Yarn AND Chocolate cupcakes in the same post? My My woman... yer killin' me. LOL

[mia]

Lovely flower photos. I need to plant some flowers but it is too hot here to even think about going outside. And the cupcakes look lovely. You had to sample the one to make sure that they were okay for the kids ;)

[Kim]

Great flower photos!! It has been to bloody hot and humid for much knitting here, but it is supposed to cool down a bit, so maybe the needles will get some action again :-). I hope that you all enjoy your summer!