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JoansGarden

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Unique knitting patterns, hand knits. Love to garden (US zone 5). A rural southern Oregon blue dot in a red sea. Born and raised in Adelaide, came to the US for 2 years, 50 years ago. Life happens.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Dec 3

Find my knitting patterns at www.ravelry.com/designers/jo...
Find finished knitted items at www.etsy.com/shop/JoansGa... or artisans.coop/pages/seller...
Some good gifts there.
Also happy to take custom orders if you have something else you'd like knitted.
Reach me at joansgarden1 on gmail
#BSNM

A sampling of 9 blue hats from simple beanies to those with added creatures (bat, octopus, snail, flamingo, jellyfish) adorning them, but they also come in any other color.

4 knitted long, skinny lace scarves, each with a different lace pattern, and thin enough to easily fit inside a winter coat on a cold day, or just to look great on a warmer day.

A sampling of 9 different sea creatures, knitted to look as realistic as possible.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 3d

My garden column for November 3rd. 🌱 #gardening

Oh, & the result of the stewed pears experiment was that I decided these are really not worth canning & I now understand the reason that they are also called sand pears. The flavor is quite nice but the texture is not. I suppose I could try jelly...

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 5d

Now in eastern Oregon, we just have freezing fog, which burns off by 10 am leaving us with a bright blue sky. Cold though...

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 5d

#ShowMeYourKnits cable week. I used cables to turn this pussy hat pattern into an owl. You can find the owl pattern here. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... or I could knit one for you. 🧶

A hat knitted with light grey yarn, using cables to look like an owl's face, with large brown buttons for the eyes, and the cables ending in pointed ears.

The same hat, knitted in a heathered darker brown yarn.

The back of the hat, with a long cabled bottom border and garter stitch top.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 8d

Starting about 5 years ago we have a couple of trepid hummingbirds that stay all winter. In the end I bought a heater for the feeder so that they would have food after those below zero (F) nights!

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 10d

Gardening during the day and cozy murder mystery audiobooks at night. Gardening is coming to an end though so I'll have to find something else for the day.

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 10d

Garden column for Oct 27th, 2025 🌱 #gardening

An article about cold weather and falling leaves, fruit that needs a hard freeze, shipping dormant trees in fall, and more garden gifts from neighbors.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 17d

My garden column for October 20th. 🌱#gardening

An article about trees being cut, birds eating berries, picking apples, and planting bareroot trees.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 22d

Always good to know if there's a black bear on the other side! Luckily, I haven't had to worry about bears.

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · 24d

My garden column for October 13th, 2025 🌱 #gardening

A gardening article about disconnecting water lines for the winter, last minute harvests, planting trees in a new food forest, and ripening tomatoes on the back of a chair.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Oct 6

My garden column for October 6th, 2025. 🌱 #gardening

An article about protecting tomato plants from a freeze with floating row cover, a neighbor felling dangerous trees, and the difficulties of getting an area weed whacked when it is filled with gopher tunnels.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 29

My gardening column for September 29th. 🌱 #gardening

An article that talks about digging the onions and potatoes before a rain, the other veggies still in the ground, and fruit about to ripen. Also ordering more plants and cleaning out a shed.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 25

That sounds good but I'm pretty lazy about lunch and I just have tomato on toast every day. Tomato seedlings were all from a friend this year and turns out she likes mild flavored tomatoes, while I like mine to show a bit of acid.

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 22

Some autumn leaves for #ShowMeYourKnits autumn projects. The pattern is available on Ravelry www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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A knitted beanie in a pale lemon shade with stranded colorwork green and brown leaves and wind currents swirling away from a lone tree trunk.

This beanie, also a pale lemon color has stranded colorwork red-green-brown leaves flying about.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 22

This week's gardening column, Sep 22nd, 2025 🌱 #gardening

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 20

Yep, all of them, even a second MMR though I'm 79. Second shingles coming up this month along with flu and Covid (now that it's available without a prescription). NO side effects at all.

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 18

In Adelaide, 50 years ago, they were always sleepy lizards.

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 18

I've been gone from Australia for 50 years now but some things I still miss, and sleepy lizards are one of them.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 16

Thing is, I use my account daily. If I delete info the account won't function properly.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 16

I got one of those emails. I reported and forwarded it to PayPal as a phishing email.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 15

My newsletter gardening article for September 15th, 2025 🌱 #gardening

An article about lack of pears because they were incorrectly pruned, growing plum trees in a hostile climate, and the produce still being picked in the garden.

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 11

I don't have O'Henry - my Oregon Curlfree produced hundreds of peaches that are juicy & delicious. I'm busy canning, & freezing, & drying. I also made peach sauce, which my husband has just finished pouring over ice cream. What I started out to say, was that I'm sure you can manage more than 1/day!

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 8

Garden column for Sep 8th, 2025 🌱 #gardening

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JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 8

None in my garden this year either.

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks!

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · Sep 4

My gosh, that's an awful lot of work for just the 2 of you. It must give you great satisfaction though.