~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a photo and share it either on your blog or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~
I continue to persevere through this scarf. I am amazed at how long it is, yet still too short. I am happy that I finally got a photo that I think accurately portrays the color.
Last week I picked up a copy of Farm City at the library last and I am really enjoying it. The author is a good storyteller and she has interesting stories to tell. She is an urban farmer living in what sounds like a dangerous area of Oakland, California. She raises a garden on an empty lot along with chickens, bees, ducks, rabbits, and even a turkey. I’m not quite halfway through the book, but so far it’s a good read. I have very little in common with the author beyond a love for growing things, but I think that’s part of what makes the book appealing.
also-I saw this on Facebook, and want to pass along that that Maya is having a really good sale on all the yarn in her Springtree Road Etsy shop: 25% off with code LOVE25. The discount is good through Sunday.
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I should check that book out, I’m a wannabe farmer and I’ll be moving to a suburban area with a medium sized garden – can’t wait to start digging my fingers into the soil! If you are interested in other “city farmers” check out Alys Fowler.
Beautiful color on that yarn, I’m sure the shawl will be stunning!
I should check that book out, I’m a closet farmer but I’m moving to a suburban area with a medium sized garden – can’t wait to start digging my fingers into the soil! If you are interested in other “city farmers” check out Alys Fowler.
Beautiful color on that yarn, I’m sure the shawl will be stunning!
You always make me want to knit scarves and shawls. Such lovely projects!
This sounds like a great book! I’m going to see if I can pick up a copy of it.
I’ve been reading a few gardening books lately too and the one you mentioned sounds interesting. As a suburban gardener, I’m always on the look out for any info about others who garden in the city/suburbs.
Your scarf is so pretty as is the colour. I’ve started a simple scarf just last night and hopefully I’ll get it done before winter is over. :o)
So happy to be able to join Yarn Along today. Thanks!
I went and put Farm City on my list at my library! It sounds really good – just the sort of book to read when I’m dying for spring and gardening to arrive!
happy knitting!
Christina
I so enjoy this link and snoooping around everyones WIP on a wednesday. Thank you
I recently read “The Quarter Acre Farm” by Spring Warren and I really enjoyed it. I need to read more, thanks for the book suggestions!
The color of that scarf makes me want to eat chocolate! I’m joining the party again this week. I’m also posing an interesting question. “If you could invite any three people to join you for a day knitting, who would you invite?” I can’t wait to see what my fellow Yarn Along knitters come up!
Scarves like this are always so worth it when they’re done. The tedious stitch patterns that never seem to go anywhere are tough, but I get the most wear out of garments like this. The color is beautiful! It has so much depth.
that yarn is just lovely, such a beautiful color way. and the pattern for the scarf is very nice. 🙂
The colour really does look cozy! Kind of like a nice mug of hot cocoa with milk chocolate drizzled in…
Hey Ginny this sure is one popular Yarn Along, I counted 1 added per minutte the first 75 minutes, when I joined 😉 How we sit and wait for you to post, so that we can link up and brag of our knitting prowess or moan over our failures and shortcomings.
I want to add my voice to the chorus. Your shawl is nice, and the colour is great as well. Thanks for hosting this which keep us all knitting.
Oakland is where we moved to Vermont from. It can definitely be a dangerous city and the poverty, crime etc. there is super discouraging and heartbreaking. Teaching public school there was intense, to be sure. *But* there is also a lot of amazing community activism and an awesome urban agriculture and local food movement. It isn’t any place that I want to raise my kids, which is part of why we jumped ship when we did, but I do get a little nostalgic for it sometimes just the same…
The yarn you chose is beautiful. I’ll look forward to seeing it when it’s complete! We are hunkering down here with a snowstorm so there will be time to knit today. 🙂
That scarf looks like the limestone does here when they blast through it to put in a road–where you can see all the layers from hundreds and millions of years before. (If you haven’t seen it, it’s hard to describe, but it’s beautiful.) And I loved “Farm City”–are you to the pig parts yet? They get pretty funny.
So excited to be able to link up with my first real knitting project ever! I’ve been following along for years wishing I could get in on the fun! Finally learned to knit, so here I am. Thanks for hosting this, it’s one of my favorite weekly stops.
Farm City is really a good read! Or, a good listen in my case since I listened to the audio book. It almost convinced me that I could raise, and consequently butcher, my own birds and rabbits. In reality, I live on a nature preserve which means that various carnivorous animals would probably break into their pens and butcher them for me. Still, the book made me think a lot about food waste and about appreciating my food more. I’m a gardener, so it’s a topic that’s near to my heart anyway, but this book reinforced those ideas for me. I learned a great deal from Farm City. I’m glad you are sharing it on your blog.
I read Farm City a few years ago, and really enjoyed it! In addition to her amazing garden, I really liked her descriptions of the people living and trying to survive in her neighborhood–what they grew, the 1-day restaurants, etc. I went to school in Berkeley, so I am vaguely familiar with the neighborhood.
I believe the city has tried to evict her since she wrote the book, and she was fighting. Can’t have someone being successful and/or starting a trend in that neighborhood, I guess. 🙁
thanks for having the yarn along will try to join it each week 🙂
have a haPPy day 🙂
hi ginny, i have that book also and find it very interesting. we can all do a lot more in our own little yards.
thanks for your yarn along.
I’d love to read that book!! Added it to my reading list 🙂 Lovely scarf, too!
I’m going to have to put that book on my list. The scarf is coming along nicely!
Thanks for the heads up on the coupon code. I just ordered some beautiful merino sock for a shawl I’ve been wanting to knit!
Sounds like an interesting book. I’m putting it in my to read queue. My dad used to work with urban farmers when he worked in 4H.
I loved that book! The author does some amazing things, especially considering she lives in the city. It was a great read.
Beautiful scarf! And the yarn makes me want to experiment with dying (I have loads of onion skins saved up…)
I would love to have that book in italian!!!
Thanks Ginny! I love the Yarn Along!
That color is very pretty. I can relate to the scarf thing, not my favorite thing to knit. Even with an interesting lace pattern, it quickly grows tiring just knitting a long length. The scarf will seem so long then you wrap it around your neck and it’s still too short. They seem to go on and on forever, but such a necessary winter item.
Sounds like a fun book!
I agree, that yarn is gorgeous!
That book looks fantastic! I think I will have to check it out. I love reading about food and homesteading. Have a great week.
That’s a great colour. I made a cowl for my m.i.l for christmas with a similar shell pattern, and it was very enjoyable to knit.
I so wish we had an english language library here, it would save me a small fortune!!
That will be a beautiful scarf. I’ll have to look for that book. We have one acre and want to get chickens and maybe bees down the road.
That yarn is gorgeous, but is one of those weird colours that are hard to name…I think we might have called it Dusty Rose in the 80s (my livingroom was papered in that colour!) but your yarn has a more contemporary flavour. It’s lovely, whatever it’s called.
Gorgeous colorway. I am always curious about urban farming and the ability to make a small place one of plenty.
Beautiful yarn, and I really love that pattern!
I will have to check out your book, thanks. And that colour is gorgeous!
Your scarf looks great, love the colour.
I must apologize, it seems as if I have linked up twice. I tried to remove my link at number 12 and used the removal tool which told me it was removed. I then re-linked, but now I see they are both still there 🙁 Sorry about that.
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Your scarf is gorgeous – good for you for sticking with it and I bet I would enjoy that book as well.
Thank you for hosting this.
The book sounds like a great read. I grew up in a rural farming community with a dairy farmer grandfather and weekend farmer for a dad. But with my husband’s job we have lived in places similar to the author’s home. It is exciting to see everyone taking up gardening and a bit of urban farming!
I love the scarf! And I love the pattern! I am still not ready to knit a complicated pattern until I know I have enough time away from my kids to actually compete it. But I want to!!!
Oh my goodness – I love that yarn! Have I told you so before? It is just so striking in today’s photograph…I am not usually an earth-tones kind of girl, but I could make an exception for yarn that lovely…
I’m adding that book to my library request list; it sounds a bit like the area where we live – not overly dangerous, but we are on the cusp of a transitional city neighborhood, and urban permaculture is firmly taking root here. It is so much fun watching things develop and being a part of it. I’ll bet I’d enjoy reading the perspective of one more experienced than I. xo
Thanks for hosting the Yarn along again. When I look at the colour of your scarf I immediately had to think: “chocolate icecream”. I seem to have a true craving for icecream at the moment. My new socks scream to me
“strawberry sorbet” while my friend coming over yesterday said salmon. I wonder if this is the longing for spring…?
Wishing you luck with the scarf. You will finish it eventually!
I have heard a lot of good things about Farm City. I guess what appeals to me about the book is it shows you don’t need a huge piece of property in order to have a ‘farm’, you take what you have and make it work.
Ooh, I love the warm earthy tones in your yarn, Ginny 🙂
The yarn is such an amazing color! Love it…and your scarf looks lovely….keep going there is an end!!!
I see progress! I am thinking you are two third’s done with the scarf. Just my guess work 🙂 Love the color. Today I am toying with which project to cast on next. Still unsure so I’m knitting on my current projects until I settle on a decision. Happy knitting, Ginny!
I think you’re right!