The Best Laid Plans

I was going back through posts and realized that I totally forgot to post about Laine Magazine 21.

Laine 21, Harvest Sun, is filled with beautiful and practical summer knits featuring interesting stitch patterns, engaging techniques and lovely details. The serene photos depict a balmy summer day in the countryside, amidst blooming gardens and golden, sun-drenched fields.

Designers featured in this issue: Fiona Alice, Jenny Ansah, Audrey Borrego, Soraya García, Kaori Katsurada, Irene Lin, Faïza Mebazaa, Paula Pereira, Julia Wilkens and Griselda Zárate.

Issue 21, Summer 2024, includes:

• 148 pages
• 11 knitting patterns (both charts and written instructions provided): 4 sweaters, 2 cardigans, 2 tops, 2 shawls and 1 pair of socks
• an interview with Kendall Ross (@id.knit.that), who has turned her knitting into a unique art form. Kendall’s wearable art pieces draw inspiration from her experiences as a young American woman.
• an article about the Irish knitting education initiative Wool in School, which is committed to increasing awareness of wool and teaching children to fall in love with knitting
• Jeanette Sloan’s column Fibre Talk, where she chats with April Tang, the co-founder of Shangdrok, a Taiwanese/Tibetan company specialising in traditional hand-spun yarn and handmade felt
• Five Ways by our regular writer Päivi Kankaro, where we learn about the not-so-hidden power of colours and how to use them in our knitting projects
• Where I Knit: A regular piece that pictures people knitting in their favourite spot. In this issue, we meet Emilia Bergoglio, who knits in the park of a shrine near their home in Tokyo, Japan
• seasonal recipes to inspire your summer cooking
• book reviews.

I was in the store at 8am because Bell was coming to fix the phone. They arrived at 10. I love the 8am-noon time slot so you have to sit around waiting but at least he came and the phone works again. While I was there I worked on my fall Rowan order. I believe that we will see the books and yarn at the beginning of September. I can’t share yet but as soon as I can I will. This afternoon I was on dad duty. I took him to the General for his speech therapy. While he was there I took 10 boxes to Good Shepherd. They were grateful for more clothes and three boxes of yarn. After his therapy we visited one of their job sites and then I took him for ice cream because he did good in therapy.

Last week I mentioned that we put an offer on a house that was accepted. There were some conditions and the home owners received another offer with no conditions a few days later. We couldn’t take our conditions off so we lost out on the house. This all happened at 9pm on Friday evening. I was upset/mad/frustrated but I’m over it now. It wasn’t meant to be so now we are looking again. 

We are going to see more yarn from Spincycle next week - Levitate Dream State. I can’t wait!!! This makes me smile.

Fred wants/needs Boscoe to play with him.