Despite my effort to continue to water the cucumber plants, the Texas heat turned the vines crispy. I picked off the small remaining cucumbers and also broke open the ear of … corn? that formed on the volunteer plant in my pumpkin patch.
It all went to the chickens. I do have quite a large basil plant that I will harvest before the weather turns cold, and the pumpkin vines are not crispy, but also not producing fruit.
I finished single spinning the rest of my Teeswater wool roving from Pitchfork Ranch. I’ve been spinning with this fiber for a year, on and off, and it feels strange to reach the end of the bag.
My first two jumbo bobbins of wool were crocheted into a circle vest. This last bobbin I’ll use to make a page for my spinning journal. With that idea, I two plied the yarn on the middle bobbin, and chain plied the yarn on bobbin on the right to get some more examples to put in my book.
I hand hemmed a second pair of pants, this time one woven with stripes. They are straight leg pants, so I could line up the stripes, and they already had a small hem, which I used to hide the stitches completely with a slip stitch.
I love how the slip stitch is nearly entirely invisible!
The crochet blocks for Warm up America have become my favorite waiting room activity, and I really enjoy the diagonal block stitch (also called corner-to-corner (CTC)). It has just enough variation that it stays interesting, but I don’t have to watch a pattern.
I am also using up yarn odds and ends to make the blocks, which is why one block has an outlier. I ran out of cream colored yarn one stitch from the end of a block. I think next time I will rip out that last block for the color change. Hm. That gives me another idea for color switching.
I forgot to pack a yarn needle, so I wove in the ends when I got home.
In June 2018 I was in the height of my “eyes on rocks” painting period. This octopus eye was one of my favorites.
This rock was put out in the wild for someone to find.
Critters and Craft 