"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."- Leonardo da Vinci

3.27.2011

Flowerpots need sleeves too

So I don't have any words of wisdom, no particular insights, no funny story for you today. I'm still waiting for spring but it seems I still have a long wait ahead.

I am planning to plant some flowers on our patio, to buy a new umbrella and coloeful pillows. I have this image of warm and sunny afternoons spent there, enjoying a glass of lemonade, my needles clicking away. That's not too much to ask, is it?

In the meantime, inspired yet again by Debbie Bliss' "The Knitter's Year", I made these three flowerpot sleeves. They just looked cute

Trying to phtograph this FO, I was wrapped in my parka, with my gloves and hat on, hoping the set-up would not get blown away by the -20C wind.

So really, under these weather-conditions, flowerpots DO need sleeves!

5 comments:

  1. Hello Monica!

    This is, after all, a funny story :)

    well, flowerpot sleeves are unusual here in Portugal. The ones you have knitted are very beautiful! What flowers are you planning to plant? Lavender would match perfectly!

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  2. To be honest Andreia, flowerpot sleeves are a little unusual here too, but they were fun to whip up. You know what? Lavender never occured to me, but it makes perfect sense...lavender plants it will be!

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  3. Cute cozies for those flowerpots!

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  4. they're pretty !
    no wonder the cups were cold (-20 ?) holly cow and on March 27 ?!!
    I was roasting myself in the sun with tank top & barefoot at naptime today !!!
    i hope you'll have milder temperatures your way real soon

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  5. Siga, thank you, and welcome!

    Valerie, I really was not exaggerating, it was -20 at the end of March, thank goodness it's over....

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