by small means

For some reason I have always been against circular needles or double pointed needles. If a pattern says to use them I always try to convert the pattern to two strait ones.  I don’t know what I was thinking. I knit up the pink striped hat on two strait needles and it took me the whole weekend. I decided to give it a go with 16″ circular ones and I finished both the green striped one and than the cream eyelet hat in one day. Granted I did have more time to give the hats that day but I was blown away by how much faster it is to knit  in a round. From now on I will not hesitate to knit in a round.

After one of my potato plants died back I started digging and found all these.

They are all pretty small for russet potatoes but I’ll give them a go anyway at the table. This is my first attempt at growing potatoes so I am happy to have any at all. I still have one other potato plant but it doesn’t look like it’ll be ready any time soon.

Peas - I thought I had about 20-30 or so pods but most of them have disappeared. Birds? The others that have remained have turned brown. I dont know much about peas but I dont think that is a good sign.  Oh well.

This little guy was knit up with cotton yarn using my pattern again. I made him for a child so he has  saftey eyes. I followed the pattern with the exception of the eyes and I used size 4 needles instead of the recommended 5. The sweater is not with the patter either. I needed one that didn’t have buttons.

I wish I knew more about each of the plants I was growing in my garden. This is pretty much my whole green bean crop. I’m waiting on a few more but this is pretty much it.

I had envisioned at least enough for our whole family to have a serving or two at dinner a couple of times, but I think there might be enough for me and maybe one of my kiddies. It’s kind of sad.  I will have plenty of tomatoes however but my onions are sad, I have one carrot growing, I don’t have any peppers yet at all. ( I did see a flower on one however so I do have my fingers crossed) My corn seems to be doing ok but I only have 3 stalks so I won’t be having any excess corn either. My garden is all in all pretty sad. 

Oh wait, I do have some peas growing. I dont know how to tell if they are done but I see about 20-30 pods so my peas might be doing ok. Oh Oh I do have patatoes too. I have no Idea how there doing, the plant seems fine but I have no way of knowing what’s going on under the soil. I’ll just have to wait and see.

I do plan on doing my homework before I plant next year.