summertime

thanks for your recent comments!
here’s a jumble of recent pictures – Donnie is making the most of the long days and I’m still working on the new fresco crescent

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donnie and knitting

fresco crescent, coming soon!

yarn from Renaissance Dyeing:

donnie’s frisbee:


shadowy donnie:

donnie and friends:

chestnut crescent and flowering trees:

spooky tree:

phoenix park:

donnie and bark:

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donnie on the run

donnie had his first big outing at the weekend – here he is flying around on the wet grass at Kilmacurragh botanical gardens in Wicklow:

some plants and knitting:

passion flower and fruit from the walled garden of Dublin’s museum of modern art:

fabulous zauberball at The Constant Knitter:

my palette of Brooklyn tweed loft – I’m doing some colorwork with it:

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donnie’s week

going to the vet for vaccinations:

disappearing in the garden to nibble and gnaw:

donnie-proof fence:

helping out with new pattern in West Yorkshire Spinners yarn:

variation of new pattern in Lang yarn:

blurry and unblocked:

Autumn colours:

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some photos

safavid in wicklow:

Avondale leaf:

stubble and Sugarloaf mountain:

St Patrick’s Cathedral:

Magnolias:

shop windows (the first one is a large photo of Francis Bacon with one of his paintings in the background – in an auctioneer’s wondow):

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December

Rainy days in Dublin:

a trip to Carlow and Kilkenny:


ghosts at Woodstock

Current knitting with Ellie and Ada sock yarn from The Constant Knitter:

souvenir from Istanbul – Suzani embroidery:

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fireworks

close up:

back:

colours:

Dublin Castle:

Avondale:


invisible:

evening swim:

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