Eleven Stitches

A Bright, Sunshiny Day

Yesterday while I was driving, I spotted ahead of me a field full of yellow flowers.  There also happened to be a small place to park right next to the field, and I quite abruptly turned into it.  I pulled out my camera, and joyfully waded in.

There were bees,

and there were butterflies.

There were so many, actually, that I accidentally got them both in the same shot.

I'm so glad I stopped!

In other news, I have a sweater and a sock finished. And I have two new projects that don't even have a photo in Ravelry.  Eek!  I need to blog more.  My dad is finally starting to recover, and we're hoping he'll get to leave the hospital soon.  Good news all around.

Steeking: A Conversation

After a test cut with my test swatch, I decided to go balls to the wall and cut the unreinforced V-neck steek for my tweed sweater.

Me: (Scissors in one hand, sweater in the other) This is going to be a little scary!
David: (Absorbed in his puzzle) Mmm-hmm. So you're going to cut your sweater. (Chuckles at his joke.)
Me: (Beginning to cut.) Yep!
David: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?
Me: I'm cutting the V-neck for my sweater.
David: YOU CAN'T JUST CUT YOUR SWEATER!
Me: It's called steeking.
David. Oh sure.  Just because it has a name, you can do it?!

Fortunately, everything turned out well.

PS.  Thank you SO MUCH for all of your good thoughts and kind words! I teared up a lot reading through my comment e-mails.  My Dad is still in the hospital, kind of in a holding pattern for now.  It's likely he'll need to have surgery again, but we have to wait until the necessary staff gets back from their long weekend.  This is really frustrating, but there isn't much that can be done.