YARN ALONG

Problems are not stop signs,
they are guidelines. 

~Robert Schuller

Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Joining with Ginny for this week's Yarn Along.

It wasn't the easiest or

the most enjoyable knit

and I almost quit several

times, but I finally succeeded

in knitting a clothesline basket.

 For the first basket I

cast on 30 stitches on size

15 circular needles. I knit

around until the basket

measured four inches then

purled a row, did a row of k2 tog,

a knit row, k2tog, until 4

stitches were left, then drew

the line through those. I ended

up using less than 100 yards of

clothes line. 

When I began decreasing I 

switched to double point needles

and that was one of the problems,

I don't own dpn's that large so

I used straight needles and just

maneuvered things around

to make it work.

The other problem is cotton

clothesline is very hard on

the hands and I had to really

pull to tighten the stitches.

 Regardless, I like how it

turned out so much that I cast

on another one, this time with

40 stitches around and plans

to make it at least 20 inches high. 

I grow all the vegetables I eat,

but I really want to live off the

land both figuratively and literally

so I picked up A field guide to Edible Wild Plant.

If I can learn just a fraction of the

information this book offers I

will never have to worry about

being hungry.