Yesterday was our ten year anniv. My SIL sent us this clever/fun gift of aluminum, tin, and diamond.

I planted a few plants – hopefully at least one of them will survive the Texas heat.

Continuing along with the squares that make up the Neopolitan blanket that I sent to the Texas State Fair, here are the cables!!!

The diamonds square is from Beautiful Knitting Patterns by Gisela Klopper p. 51




The next cable square is a complicated middle cable framed by two XO cables. The
two smaller cables came from The Harmony Guides 220 Aran Stitches and Patterns vol. 5 p. 34 and the main cable came from a variation of the cable on p. 69



The 3 giant cables are pulled from this pattern. The cables are 12 stitches wide total. The outer 2 twist to the right while the middle one twists left….sorry, no picture since I neglected to take one before I shipped it off.


The final cable pattern is from the Great American Aran Afghan book. I repeated Chart A from Barbara McIntire’s square (p. 45) twice. This one turned out slightly more narrow than I would have liked, but I was able to find a place for it since the Seaweed square turned out to be a little slender as well.

Sydney and I went to take out the trash. She seemed to enjoy running around in the wheat-colored weeds that were as tall as her. It would have made a really pretty picture. So we went to get the camera and came back outside. Then, she seemed to think that she should stand in the driveway and stare at me despite my many “release” commands. Oh well, at least I got this pic of her with the crape myrtle….and a nice chuckle at her thought process.