Snow Day 2!

It's been snowing all day long. We're supposed to have 18 inches by the time it's done. And I think it'll get there!

We're warm and toasty in our house with the new boiler but we had to take advantage of the snow some as well. Can't let good snow go to waste. I saw a sled in an antique store window down the street yesterday but it's closed for the season so sledding will have to wait a little bit longer. In the meantime, we made snow cream (Patrick had never had any before!) and snowpeople on the roof outside the study window.

Car Knitting

As I have a 2 hour commute now, you know that I must have some car knitting to go along with it. There are only so many collapsing barns along the route for photo-taking entertainment.


My first car project is the Welsh Blanket in a mosaic stitch from the Debbie Bliss Fall/Winter 2009 issue. The mosaic stitch is new to me and it's like magic! Only one color is knitted at a time, in 2-row sets, slipping the stitches that are to be the other color. Kind of like double-knitting only it doesn't wind up being double-sided. It's slow going on size 6 needles but I have the time!

The best thing about the blanket-knitting so far is that I'm using some of my yarn from Sheep and Wool last October. Sheep and Wool yarn is always tough to break into (I still have some I'm hesitating over from 2008!) but always fun to actually use. The blue is Brooks Farm Willow, 70% wool, 30% bamboo and the cream is Louet Riverstone, 100% wool. I've never used either yarn before but I love them both.

The blanket is about 8 inches long so far. I'll post more (and better) photos when it gets a bit further along.

Snowed in

All of the trees looked like they were made of snow when we got in last night. Several were bending almost to the ground. We're staying here today!

Day 15

This is indeed the same time of day as all of the other photos but, for the first time, it was actually snowing in the morning (rather than just in the afternoon). Although it was only raining in Brooklyn, it continued to snow in Sullivan County all day long. By the time we got home, everything was buried under about 8 inches of snow. We had to shovel our car into the parking lot at the top of our street!

Day 14

Painted Panelling, Part 2

A photo of the panelling painted and a little bit of furniture in the room! It is terribly difficult to take a photo of a room made up of four impossible walls -- one has a huge window in it, one looks through to the mess of the kitchen, one is covered by the television and its inappropriate "stand" (dresser found on the street in Williamsburg) and mess of wires, and the last looks through a door with glass windows onto another huge window. So here is my edited version of our "tv room", complete with painted panelling. We still want to paint the trim ("cottage green") but this room is largely finished!

I feel that it is impossible not to point out our new lampshade, purchased just yesterday from a jaunt to anthropologie in SoHo. You know how new purchases are.

The eponymous tv of "tv room" is, of course, what the sofa is looking at. You can feel free to imagine how lovely it is, sitting in its stand that Patrick built for it (which doesn't yet exist). It has cabinet doors picked up at some great local antique store (they've yet to be found).

A Bit Under the Weather

There will be new house updates soon. I've just been a little under the weather for the last few days and so haven't made many new house updates.