The happenings at our household this weekend have been slow and relaxed. I came down with a bad cold / throat thing, and spent most of Saturday lying on the couch piling up the Kleenex. Sick of watching tv and my head too fuzzy to concentrate on a book, I remembered an embroidery project I planned to start. I loved that one issue of Martha with all the bird embroidery. So I printed out the pattern from her website, and kept myself happy (or as happy as one can be confined to the couch) with a few hours of redwork.



I am so happy with the results I plan to frame it, and I have almost completed a second one to make a lovely pair.

The only other excitement Saturday brought was a copy of a book in which two of my knitting patterns were published. Eons ago I was contacted by a publisher asking if I would be willing to contribute two or more patterns to a teen knitting book destined for release in the Fall of 2006. Even though I think there are way too many teen / kid-based knitting books out there, I couldn't turn down the offer for a little cash, and who doesn't like to be published. I should have been prepared for how long it would take to get my copy of the book, after all it was months before I received my copy of SNB Nation after I was published there. Anyhow here are a couple snippets of what I contributed.



Sunday morning brought some relief to my sore throat, but my head it still quite stuffy. The warm breeze blowing in woke me up early, and in a simple celebration of the summer-like weather I had strawberries and cream for breakfast.



And finally before I forget, here is the promised photo of the dress I made a couple weeks back. It's comfortable and the pattern was so simple...