MouseGarden

I've added some knitting patterns for sale.  I also sell patterns on Etsy if you prefer that site.

I like my patterns to be straightforward and adaptable.  I think if a pattern is only really achievable in one particular yarn it isn't very useful.  It should be something that once you learn the stitch you could use it in many ways.  It also should be something you can knit without too much frustration.

Sometimes I see a stitch and think that is awesome, but so complicated,  I am never ever doing it!  It has to be really pretty to make me slog through a 24 row repeat, or more of pattern.  That said, I have my eye on Ginkgo Stitch.  It looks like lacy Ginkgo leaves and is gorgeous, I just haven't learnt it yet.

Update on sunflowers:  they look like Swiss cheese because they've been nibbled so much.  I'll have to take a photo so you can thrill to the spectacle.  The only sunflower in bloom is oddly enough, one I never planted.  It was probably buried in the flower bed by a squirrel or dropped by a bird.

I can feel the season turning.  No!  I'm not ready! (but I will be...I'm knitting a tweed scarf)

I just finished a golden yellow scarf and I am quite pleased with how it turned out.  The knitting always seems to take longer than I remember.  I think it would be a nice color for when the season changes.




I'm expecting hot weather, so I might start winning on the slug front.  The sunflowers this year are a bit underwhelming because they haven't had enough sun.  The poppies have lots of buds but no flowers yet. (I have a short growing season so I can be seen in the garden yelling "hurry up!"  LOL)

Sunday I saw a bobcat for the first time, very briefly.  That was exciting.  I always wondered if the difference between it and a cat would be obvious or not, and yes it was obvious that it was something else.  They are quite fast and a bit stocky.  Didn't manage to get a photo.

Now I wonder if that was the cat print with the long stride that I found in the winter.  Hmm.  And not good news for the people who still let their cats roam around outside.