good-natured ribbing

1. Finished tiny tomatoes:

To quote a tiny Corie, these are the best little tomatoes “I ever saw.” Most of them are about the size of a gumball, a few are as big as a shooter marble. The yellow ones are sweeter and better than the red. I am always amazed at how much better home-grown tomotoes taste than the vine-ripened tomatoes in the grocery stores, even when they’re grown on an apartment patio overlooking a parking lot. Unfortunately, I think I’m only going to get a few batches of these — I suspect that I stunted the plant growth by placing too many plants in a small patio planter.

2. Finished sweater for a finished (Finnish) baby:

Pattern: Baby kimono Mason-Dixon Knitting
Yarn: Cascade Sierra
Needles: Size 6

The baby (new daughter of a colleague – welcome, Fiona!) was finished a couple of weeks ago, but a “closure” crisis cause a delay in gifting the sweater. The pattern calls for a ribbon closure, but all of the ribbons I found around here just didn’t work. Finally, Beth and Sherry encouraged me to reconsider a button, and I found a very cute one:

The kitty looks a little anime, no?

3. Finished birthday socks:

I also finished some *R E D* Birthday socks requested by a sister — but I can’t show those yet!