Fred in the sewing room:

Ollie in the sewing room:

I made this little cardigan in about an hour and a half one evening last summer when I realized I really, desperately needed something lighter than my corduroy jacket to wear over sundresses to work. I wore it a lot but never photographed it.

It's made from a yard of cotton jersey that was in the stash and a swing cardigan pattern I've used once before. I didn't have nearly enough fabric and I remember there being a lot of careful pinning and planning before anything was cut out (a careful search of my photo library revealed three very non-illustrative pictures of my process - why?); all the edges were left raw to save both time and fabric. The cropped length turned out to be just right.

Just in case anyone is wondering: I didn't make this sundress. It was a vacation purchase. Super cute, cool and comfy and gets bonus marks for having just the right teal in it to go with my cardigan.

A generous donation to the Emergency Measures Food Bank for Mosquitoes was made during the taking of these photos.

We're home.

We've actually been home since Thursday but I'm only just feeling collected enough to do some writing now. We had a good trip with some nice adventures. Some of those have appeared over on my Flickr stream and some of them I'll elaborate on here sometime soon. No matter how good a trip is it always feels so good to get home: to cuddle all our critters, to cook our own food, to have our own quilts and to sleep with our own pillows (why are hotel pillows so incredibly fluffy?).

I admired a lot of gardens in the Vancouver area while we were away and it was exciting to get back into mine when we arrived home. Even more exciting was taking a peek at the radishes when I watered the garden today and discovering that the radishes that were just barely big enough for a couple of very small bites on Thursday were now full size and ready for eating. A nice addition to lunch.