Lucky me – it’s been a week of green gifts – knitterly and otherwise 😀
The lovely Ben returned from a week long work trip to Seattle with a gift of yarn. He knows how to make his wife happy!
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This is Sophistisock (SW merino, Nylon and Tencel) from MJ Yarns in Pike Place, Seattle. What a lovely man 😍
My friend Diane, from the Guilty Knitters knitting group, is decluttering pending a house move and gave me some beautiful vintage silk fabric from Singapore.
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It’s about 3/4 meter – my imagination is fired up with ideas to make the most of it.
Excitingly, Diane has had this stashed away for more than 50 years!! She knows it was from a trip in either 1968 or 1972. Truly vintage ❤️
Almost as exciting as the fabric, it was still in the original paper bag from Tang’s department store, “Singapore’s Treasure House of World Loveliness”.
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I was amazed to find that Tang’s is still there in Singapore.
TANGS is a department store located on Orchard Road in Singapore, owned by C.K. Tang Limited. The store is regarded as a principal shopping destination in the city, comparable to Bloomingdale’s in New York City and Selfridges in London. The company was founded by Tang Choon Keng in 1932.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangs
My last “green gifts” are from my garden (and quite a few small red round ones!)
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After a dull and wet summer, here in the UK, we’ve had a late, very hot couple of weeks. Every thing has ripened at once. I can’t move for cucumbers, cucamelon, courgettes, chillis and tomatoes.
My week has been filled with a substantial amounts of pickling cucumbers and cucamelons, not to mention making soups, sauces, freezing and giving away produce ( My poor postman now runs away in case I force any more cucumber on him!)
Some highlights of my culinary adventures…
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In the midst of all this cooking and gifting excitement, there has been knitting. I have finished both sleeves of my blue “After the Rain” sweater and joined them with the body and started the yoke.
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The most thrilling thing about that picture is my new garden chair and how perfectly it is designed for knitting – a thoughtful yarn holder and pattern holder (mislabeled as “drinks holder” and “Ipad holder” 🤔
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I’ve started the fairisle on After the rain – more exciting pictures of it next week!
You have been a very busy bee. 😊
Hubby is the cook in our family. He has been making wonderful pizza sauce with our cherry tomatoes. Gotta enjoy while fresh tomatoes last. Ohhh, that is a nice chair.
What a lovely post. x