Ms. Cleaver Chronicles

This is the time of year when I’m going to try and make everyone jealous that I live in Maine. For reasons, see the following evidence:

Exhibit A: (Sunday – Ocean Park Beach)

Exhibit B: (Monday – Evergreen Cemetary (half a mile from my apartment)

We had a whole weekend of sun which meant I finally got to wear a new summer top I made on Saturday.

It’s loosely based on Maryy’s Hot Hot Heat top tutorial, and was made before a) Burdastyle made an actual pattern of it and b) I took the pattern-making class, so it was a lot of trial and error to get something that looks right. There was a time in the middle when I thought it was hopeless, but I think it turned out pretty well in the end. The fabric came from a bag of stuff from a friend of m mother-in-law’s, so it was nice to have some free fabric to experiment with.

But really this post is about Sunday, which involved soft-serve with sprinkles and several hours at Fort Williams Park taking it all in.

Summer is finally here! Hooray!

For national weather watchers, and New England blog-readers, you may have heard that it was a damp June here in Maine. We pretty much had mist, fog, or rain every day for the last three weeks of the month. A little fog didn’t keep six brave knitting souls from attempting a stitch n’ pitch at Hadlock Field this past Tuesday.

By the middle of the first inning we had seven runs against us, one out and a reliever pitcher, we never rallyed as hoped (I’ve yet to ever see the Seadogs win a game), but despite the weather I had a great time.  It’s July now and it looks like we’ll be getting more sun, and there are more plans to knit outside, so fingers crossed!