Sunflowers and dientes de leon

These are my favorite, sunflowers for my sunshine.

Here is Grandma playing with Molly in the garden.

And my personal favorite flower, the dandelion... in Spanish Diente de leon, or Lion's tooth. A flower so strong, they call it a weed.

Before the knit, the wall

Before I was knitting, I painted the garden in M's room. It started with this fairy that a friend drew and I painted. I had thought about painting over her, I decided she was too girly for me. Then another friend talked me out of it, saying that the fairy reminded her of me when we were kids (I was bald at the time).

And M seemed to love it.

The next fairy I drew felt much more like us now, a bit more spritish. And I felt we needed more diversity. I liked the daisies, so I decided to paint her to blend in a bit. But then I got stuck on how I wanted to paint the wings. I also felt we needed a chubbier fairy in the mix, to match M, but by the time I finished this one...

M stretched out. She really liked the wall art, down at her level.

My first big knit

Before the knits, came the inspiration, my favoritest creation. Work in progress, begun in September 2004, born June 18, 2005. I'd say she's still on the needles, but I think maybe I'm on hers.