Four Paws And Some String

I have been dealing with food allergies for the past several years.  One major allergy is yeast.  I can't eat any mass produced baked goods without yeast because they could be cross-contaminated where they were made. Yeast is used as a flavoring in many...

 Knitting the Ebony vest has gone quickly.  I rarely knit with bulky yarn.  It's rather nice not having a project take a long time.  One of my last was a knit lace shawl with fingering yarn.
This is the vest with the body knit and the it and the pockets sewn.  I had to do something different to finish the ribbing and the collar.  The instructions called for  Elizabeth Zimmerman's sewn bind-off. I was scared to do it at first.  Then I thought...

 I wasn't feeling very good about my current job search.  I looked at the purple merino pieces I had knit for my vest and decided to work on them.
The vest pattern is Ebony by Minimi Knit Design.  The yarn is Bolviana Chunky made by Cascade.  As you can see, it is cat-approved.  Because life interfered, I haven't knit much in the recent past.  I bought this yarn this past spring because I'd wanted...

 The two-storey Victorian house I live in has a small front garden instead of a grassy lawn.  A garden there was a very good idea, especially since the land slopes. It has problems, though.  The major plants are non-native, Japanese shrubs that have...