Maroon & Gold

This scarf is very good-looking.  Sadly, for some reason, the digital camera does not seem to believe me.  This is the best I could do.
  It's very soft, too.  I used up every yard of two balls of Karabella Aurora 8 (the gold) and every yard of the red hand-dyed Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool. (it was about half a skein of the Fishermen's)  I am always surprised at how nice the Fishermen's is.  Very soft and very wearable -- and such a bargain.  I ran out of the red before the scarf was as long as I wanted it, but I did my best to make it color-balanced.  I had a whole lot of fun knitting this pattern and I'm wondering why it took me so long to try it.  It's easy and fun.  It'd be much better in self-striping yarn so there wouldn't be all those ends to weave in, but even that wasn't very problematic.

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I just had to show you this:

Reader Beebs generously knit two gorgeous scarves that I posted over in the RSP07 blog.  She also made these cute-and-WARM thrummed vests for the Dulaan kids.  I can hardly stand the cuteness. 

I can always tell when Typepad is up to something -- when I go to my Bloglines list and see so many blogs listed as having TEN updates. They're apparently going through and republishing everybody's blogs, and I just hope they haven't done something devious.  Devious, as in that dreaded word, "upgrade." 

We got chased in by the rain, but we had a lovely clean-and-dirty-fun-and-cheap-entertainment (now get your mind out of the gutters) morning and early afternoon.  David raked leaves from the neighbors' yards (our neighbors have to think we are simply batshit) because we don't have enough of our own, and we piled them up on the vegetable garden, layered over newspapers and topped with hay.  I'm a glutton for punishment and my curiosity got the best of me, so I just couldn't hold myself back from trying the lasagna gardening method. It worked out well, because with the materials we had and the time and the rain-chasing-us-in factor, we covered about, oh, 60% or so of our garden.  This will provide us an interesting comparison for our plantings next spring.  I will say that I started this in some small places in September, and I pulled some of that older-placed mulch away to look in it.  It was a veritable worm farm.  Very exciting stuff for organic gardeners.  We had an offer of all the Morgan horse manure we wanted (ETA:  heh - Rabbitch has a good point in the comments), and if we'd had the time, we would have gone and got a truckload and added that to the lasagna layers, but we didn't have time.  Perhaps next year. 

Comments

[Rabbitch]

"All the Morgan horse manure we wanted". I don't know if I'm impressed or amused that I have friends that think of this as a luxury ...

[Abigail]

Mommmmm, can I have some REAL lasagna?

[JoVE]

Funny, it is always blogger blogs that have 25 updates in mine. I have blamed it on people upgrading to BETA but then the same ones keep happening. I was then blaming it on them going back and putting categories in their old posts (because they couldn't do that before). But maybe not.

[Ruth]

Gorgeous scarf ... Iowa State colors, BTW (Go Cyclones!).

I'm going to have to pick your brain re: my garden over the winter, so that I'm ready for spring when it comes. This is the year I'm going to get it all under control, I swear! (hah ... I first typed "I sweat". that, too.)

[Kathy]

I need to set down lasagna patches, too. We've got plenty of leaves and newspaper around here, which is at least a start. Worth doing as soon as it #$%@ stops raining :P

[Rachel H]

I believe you, even if your camera doesn't.

And I think your daughter would like a care package. With lasagna. Come to think of it, so would I.

[AnnP]

Our friend used to say manure was 'like gold'. He would bring us trailer loads of it but, sadly, he has passed away and my garden is the worse for it.

[margene]

Maybe it's Bloglines upgrading. I've seen both Typepad an Blogger blogs with loads of updates...not mine however. Hummm. The vests are fabulous! They even sound good to me here in Utah today...brrrrr.

[Kate on vancouver island]

A well constructed compost bed is a beautiful thing.
I love manure so much my girlfriend gave me rabbit manure (from her rabbits) for my birthday this year. Her husband said 'you must be secure in your friendship', but she knew I'd love it!

[Lucia]

O.M.G. that scarf is gorgeous. And the cuteness is, well, awesome cute.

[Lee Ann]

Abigail, come up and visit me. I'll make you lasagne. And while you're at it, tell your mum she should come with you, for chrissakes...

:-)

(Missed you like crazy Friday)

[gale (she shoots sheep shots)]

Love that scarf! I've never found that pattern appealing till now.I'm already thinking of what I could use for one. A load of Morgan horse manure? Still not appealing.

[Kristen]

My sister lives on a horse farm. You should see the size and quantity of the veggies in her garden! And she's an insanely busy mom of two small kids who works two 12-hour shifts on the weekends, so you can imagine how much attention the garden gets. Enough said.

[pippi]

the same thing is happening to my bloglines!
It's very confusing! lol.

Beautiful job on the scarf!
Speaking of scarf-ness; I'm finally getting around to dyeing some yarn for my Red Scarf! (finally!!)

Hope you are injoying this insanley confusing freakishly warm weather.

[pippi]

injoy?! sheesh!
Clearly I need more coffee!
Enjoy your day!

[Teri P]

Wow - reading this just triggered a memory of my childhood. I remember going to horse stables with my dad and helping him fork up piles and piles into the truck to bring home to 'feed' our garden. Also raking leaves in a friends' yard and driving back across town ... with three or four kids laying spread-eagle on top of the leaves to keep them from blowing all over.

[Cathy]

I love it that you are giving lasagna gardening a whorl :-). A new spin... never mind, I could get a little out of hand. Anyway, I have a friend with horses - I have to let her manure really compost or I get all kinds of grasses and alfafa growing.

[Kelly]

What cool scarf! The Dulaan vests are really cute!

[Cathy]

http://tinyurl.com/ycsoxf
Here's more food for thought for your garden. Now that I no longer have lawn clippings - I need to keep this in mind.

[Kim]

Norma! Fix that girl some REAL lasagne! ;)

Your scarf is beautiful!

[Carrie]

I think Bloglines itself had an update, because almost every blog I read reposted the last several posts.
Hooray for lasagna gardening! I came across a site recently about a family who grows all their own food on their tiny plot in Pasadena, and it made me want to grow a garden myself. I should probably start it soon if I'm going to - before it gets too cold. I have a few days yet - last night we slept with all the windows open and I still needed a fan!

[Kat with a K]

Looks great!