Anticipation

Its September and this is what my tomatoes look like. This year is the first garden A.K. and I had since moving to Seattle and I am just not use to waiting so long for a ripe tomato. In North Carolina, I would be up to my eyeballs in red tomatoes, trying to can them as fast as I could to make sure none rotted. In the Northwest, I've been waiting all summer to have ONE, tomato to stick in a salad. My lettuce went like gangbusters, but the tomatoes have been slow. REALLY S-L-O-W.

Luckily, being from the South, I know how to make a fried green tomato. This is probably the part of the blog where I would include a recipe for fried green tomatoes, but really the name is really the recipe. You fry slices of green tomato. You may use flour or your favorite fry batter, but I think corn meal is best.


Speaking of green things, I finished the Telegraph Cove Sweater except for the buttons. Why are the perfect buttons so elusive? I've been looking everywhere for a great button, but I always end up using a mother-of-pearl button. I'm so boring. Here's a preview.




And I started a Clapotis with Garden Party that I got from Sundara.



I don't know why I started the scarf. I can't say I was particularly taken with the pattern, but I do like Kate Gilbert's work. I think I just needed a break. I've been drowning in paperwork.

I think I might have mentioned my secret project, which is a professional side venture, and A.K. and I are also working on a personal secret project. If either progresses, I'll share more, but for now I will keep things secret. So I just mention these things to explain why my blogging is erratic and why my photos are littered with paperwork.

It's been so long ...

... since I posted and I don't have a good excuse. Just life.

I got sick and didn't seem to get better for two weeks. I think A.K. and I just kept exchanging germs so the bacteria sacked out and well, two weeks went by in a haze of cold medicine and tissue paper.

Our garden has taken off. This bowl of lettuce became a lovely goat cheese and pear salad with lemon tarragon dressing.


and these lovely little strawberries, coupled with a pint of store-bought ones turned in to a great strawberry sauce to top off a brownie sundae.


Other than that, I apparently didn't do any dishes ...



and I took a bunch of photos of my kitty.


I've made some progress on the Telegraph Cove sweater, but I want to reshoot the photos because they turned out awful. I need to make a hell of a lot more progress on it, since the sweater is named after the place A.K. and I are going to vacation THIS WEEKEND!

I swear, I need an extra week off from work just to prepare for my week off.

Weekend

I felt guilty about not showing a better photo of the wrap cardigan progress, so I took the stitches off my needles and took these shots.

The fabric behind the sweater is what I'm using for the fabric panel for the sweater. I'm not sure who will be the recipient yet, as I have a few friends having babies in the upcoming months, so I wanted it to be gender-neutral.

But this beauty has been spoken for.

This is my second attempt at testing my sewing skills, and I totally ripped off Whispering Pines, but you must agree it's worth stealing.
All in all, not too difficult, except I had a tough time with those ties, and the inside of the outfit looks like hell, but the outfit is so adorable, I'm in the process of sewing another one for A.K.'s new niece! (I guess she's my new niece too, but she's the first grandchild on his side of the family, so I'll let him have the glory.)

Also as another shoutout to A.K., the table that has all my crap on it, is a table we got from Craigslist for FREE! It needed a lot of TLC, which A.K. did! It looks fabulous, despite my crap being all over it.
So to treat ourselves for jobs well done, A.K. and I went snowboarding on Saturday, since it seems like it's our last chance before the season is over.



Because apparently spring is making it's way to Seattle.