memorial day weekend

last weekend we went to the farmers market, where we tried not to melt in the heat and got some really good cherry tomatoes.

 i wore my latest finished dress.

 made a caprese with avacado salad,

and baked some cookies from my back in the day bakery cookbook. they are the best ever.

spring holidays

it's me! and here are pictures from my vacation.

first my sister stacia came to savannah to visit me:

then i drove back to lexington with her, and our parents met us there too. we went to fort boonesborough:

then we went up to mn together. we visited duluth:

and the betsy-tacy houses in mankato:

pippa crown by manzanita

spring is the perfect time for crowns!  Rebecca from Manzanita and i did a little crown swap, and she sent me this pretty pale pink Pippa crown. (she's catching up on orders right now,but soon it will be available in her shop.)  i love how delicate and sweet it is. Rebecca makes the most beautiful crochet accessories, you can see a whole bunch of them here.

today also happens to be the first birthday of Rebecca's blog, (one of my favorites, full of craft diy's, outfit posts, and of course crochet) , and you should stop over there and wish Manzanita a happy birthday!

snippet

here's a little snippet of the weekend.   i went to fabrika in savannah and got this red riding hood fabric.i'm so excited for it to turn into a dress! i also cut out fabric for three other dresses. i found this to be easier to do when mike is home, so he can hold fig. i have to lay out the fabric on the floor, and she always wants to come and lay on top of it and tries to eat the pins.
i also read some in one of my favorite books. my mom read it to us when we were little, and i was really happy to learn that it's actually the first in a series. so i got the rest on my kindle all ready to go.
and lastly, this weekend we ate lots of guacamole!

the beach

on monday we went to the beach on tybee island. it's been hot here already, but at the beach it was cooler and windy.  i did my usual grandma thing; sat in my chair under my umbrella, all wrapped up in a towel so as not to catch a chill or get sunburnt, and read. while all the spring break kids ran around in their bikinis throwing frisbees and such.

i wore a new lavender dress i made. it's cotton and springy and swingy. i like it.

it was windy, resulting in a lot of pregnant dress billowing pictures. and then we also took the ever attractive jumping pictures.

it was a good day.

nowadays

picking flowers in the alley behind our house during fig walks

an especially honey sweet and crispy honeycrisp apple. an apple with peanut butter is my favorite food right now.

my dala horse on a bookshelf mike just finished building.

a new pink polish. and tangerine chapstick from my cousin Miranda's new shop , i love using organic beauty products,  and she makes the chapsticks from organic honey and bees wax in delicious flavors. yum. me and mike keep stealing it from eachother back and forth..so probably time to get some more.

sewing all the time. i got a whole lot of colorful fabrics for some spring dresses and tops.

pattern: zig zag blanket

i made this custom queen sized mint and cream blanket for Devon, and i was so pleased with how it came out! i'd love to make one for myself one of these days.

pattern: zig zag blanket

i used:

5.5 mm crochet hook

caron simply soft yarn in soft green and off white (about 18 skeins for this queen sized blanket)

scissors

yarn needle to weave in ends

chain a multiple of 28 stitches (for this queen size blanket, i chained 336)

row 1:  turn. ch 2. 2 dcs in 3rd ch from hook, *10 dcs, dc3together 2 times, 10 dcs, (3 dcs in next stitch) 2 times* ; repeat from * to * across, ending with 3 dcs in last ch.

row 2: turn. ch 2. 2 dcs in first dc, *10 dcs, dc3together 2 times, 10 dcs, (3 dcs in next stitch) 2 times* ; repeat from * to * across, ending with 3 dcs in turning chain.

repeat row 2.

for this 2 color blanket,i switched colors after every seven rows.