Weekend, and Year of Projects update....

Hello. 

I hope you had a great weekend wherever you are out there, once again our weekend just seemed to disappear !

I don't know if me working on Saturdays has anything to do with it, but I blink and we are back into a new week again!

Now I don't know if you realise, but we are a bit weather obsessed here in Victoria, and with good reason!

It was looking like Spring was on it's way, lovely sunshine, no wind, less chill to the air, but hang on, we are back to freezing, squally, wet, windy days at the moment!

I even went to far as getting out my seed basket and organising my tomatoes for this year, I am going to start them off in the hot house and try and get some early ones growing.   I am a bit of a seedaholic, and have far more than I can ever grow, but I just can't resist an interesting packet of seeds with their colourful photos promising abundance!  I think to myself "I can do that too!". They suck me in every time.  This year I am going to plant a lot more of everything so hopefully I will start to make inroads on my seed stash.

  

When the weather turned, I also got stuck into my crochet for a while. 

So here is my Year of Projects update for the week (or fortnight really).

I have made 53 new mini squares so the tally is now 183/600.

And I made 1 new motif for my summer tablecloth,  tally now 12/100.

I feel it will be a while before I have a finished project to show at this rate!

I have been making some progress on my new mixed-stitch-stripey blanket design, but I will post about that tomorrow.  I think I will set up a new page for this blanket, so anyone who wants to crochet along can find all the stitches and stuff in one place. 

Ok, I think that's about all for now, bye!

At my house....

..... I've just noticed that the garden is going bonkers! (and needs a good mow again! doh!) We have had heaps of rain recently and everything has just taken off. We have been away this weekend to Shepparton, and when we got home I had a wander around our lush garden, and the vegie garden in particular.



There are plenty of snowpeas quietly flowering and making pods.



I have these beautiful crimson broadbeans in several spots in my garden, they are looking lovely now, we should get plenty of broadys from them too.



Red cabbages nearly big enough to pick.



Green cabbage ready now. I've also grown collards this year but I'm not really sure what to do with them. (I heard the chooks like them, mine don't seem too impressed)



Beetroot bed, I am growing several differnt varieties of beetroot this year - chiogia(stripey), golden,bulls blood, and cylindra. Also put in some white ones but I don't think they came up.
The idea was to have all of these lovely coloured baby beets ready to go, so I can make a really nice roast beetroot salad. We should be able to do that soon!



The Tuscan Kale has been ace this year, and is still going strong.



This is my little adventure chook, she is the only one of our chooks who likes to fly over their fence and have a wander about the garden. I've recently found her hidden nest where she likes to lay her eggs in peace. She's a funny little thing!



All this nice weather has made me think about planting out some things for summer. I used to grow vegie and herb seedlings for a market stall, so I was always on top of what should go in for the season; but I'm not doing the market this year and I have got behind in my sowing as the pressure has been off. Very slack of me! Time to get these seeds in!




Just thought I'd end with a photo of some lovely cotton yarn I picked up in Bendigo yesterday. Can't wait to turn it into some great stuff! Lots of ideas for all of this.
And I have just spent an hour and a half weaving in all of the threads on my blankie and it is now COMPLETELY FINISHED! Yay! Photos to come soon!
I hope you all have had lovely weekends!