Lora

@LoraHughes
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Knitting hag, garden dilitante, Trans ally, indentured servant to Mizzy BunnyButt, the DoodleFace, & Saga T. Monster. Wildlife stan. Appalachian in Scotland. PS: I love my food, but cannot cook.
Header = Mizzy BunnyButt, a calico cat with no tail, stretched out on a printed red duvet, white belly showing.
Avatar = Saga, a German shepherd, at 4 months, sitting next to Mlle DoodleFace, a black labradoodle, backs to camera in front of a dog gate, looking through open front door.

Seen on the dog walk.

#Gardening

"Il y avait des béliers bien nourris, de toison foisonnante, beaux et grand, couleur de violette."

Après la caravelle rose, pourquoi pas des moutons violets ?
Des moutons à la toison foncée avec quelques nuances rosées brodés au point de nœud
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👉🏻☕️

Brunnera Jack Frost in bloom.

#Gardening

Mlle DoodleFace's appetite is back after her long illness.

#DogsOfMastodon

Fresh from the groomer #DogsOfMastodon.

I love these ornate Victorian-style cast iron benches as there's just so much going on. This particular example is in Fountain Gardens in Paisley, but you can also find them in the Kibble Palace in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow.

#glasgow #paisley #fountaingardens #ironwork #architecture

Buttonhole #knitting
Some of you asked how to make a buttonhole. Here’s one in garter stitch. Stay tuned for how I make buttonholes in linen stitch.
✨👉 Make 3 backward loops, slip next 2 sts knitwise one by one, pass first slipped stitch over the second, slip stitch back to left hand needle, k2tog. You have now bound off 2 sts but cast on 3 sts. On next row, when you come to the buttonhole, k 2 backward loops, then k2tog, i.e. knit the last backward loop together with the following st 🧶 🧶 🧶
lyrics by my 3-year-old daughter

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