I really enjoyed reading everyone's nostalgia on the last post – thanks so much to everyone who took the time to reminisce with me.
Here things have been hotting up in the garden and all my veggies are getting ready for planting out.
I love growing things from seed – it's like magic really, especially with something prolific like a courgette.
You take a tiny wizened seed, poke it into some damp compost and after a week or so you have the most perfect little seedling – looking just like a child would draw one. After a little watering and tending for a couple of months you have a huge bushy plant popping out fat and delicious courgettes.
Lettuce and leaves are quick to reap rewards from too. I sowed some rainbow chard and oak leaf lettuce around 8 weeks ago…
and look at them now!
My little courgette seedlings have me feeling all inspired and so I've been playing around with charts and have knitted a new seedling dress design…
I hope to have a bunny to wear this along with a few friends ready by the end of the month.
little cotton rabbits 
Hi Julie,
That bunny dress is soooo cute, can
t wait to see the bunny wearing it.ve grown some courgettes in the past. I get lovely healthy plants, i plant them out and they grow strong and lush with lovely yellow flowers! THEN the flowers die back and drop off and thats it! No flipping courgettes come! DonYou have such green fingers. I
t know what im doing wrong? My Dad used to grow loads of courgettes. Oh well.Take care
Love Carole from Rossendale xxx
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Oh dear sweet thing…can you knit one in my size?
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I too love growing things from the seed, even though it sometimes doesn’t work out. Icelandic weather conditions are not always the best for it but I keep on trying. I think it taste’s much better if you grow it yourself.
Love the inspired bunny dress.
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desires seedling dress in Emily-size
Impressive veggies, Ms Cotton-Rabbits! They’ll make a lovely salad to accompany a nice summer barbecue… nom nom nom =)
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Oh..LOVELY!
Monica
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Gosh i’d LOVE dress like that beauty!… really no kidding
all of your plants look amazing, it is all very addictive, isn’t it??
j x
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I’ve got lots of magic going on in my world too. Everything from the growing of seedlings in the garden to the growing of 3 wonderful grandchildren [2 boys and 1 girl]….if you’d like to see the magic of the scans please drop in to my sunday post on my blog to check them out 🙂
A x
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Goodness the little dress is LOVELY !!!! You are such an inspiration.
maria
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What a lovely little dress. You are inspired and very very talented.
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I too have lots of seeds growing well (Peter Rabbit would be very happy in my garden) and am an avid knitter, but oh! how I wish I could design a pattern like you do.
Gorgeous little dress for a lucky bunny – I wonder what her name will be?
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I have been following your blog for over a year now and recently created my own after feeling inspired by yours. I love growing plants from seeds it is amazing how quickly they shoot up. I planted some herbs three weeks ago and now they are ready to use in my cooking.
I love the new dress design, it is making me itch to begin a new knitting project!
Dana xx
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I’ve got seedlings growing too but of the flower variety, all in pots as a compromise as the pup kept digging holes in my tiny bit of earth. Love the new dress design , someday it would be lovely if you could show the underside of one of your dresses for a knitter like myself as my attempts are so untidy it would be great to see how they are supposed to look x
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While the courgette seedling may indeed be more prolific once finished I doubt it could ever be any more beautiful than that dress. Julie you are a green AND a yarny fingered marvel.
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So cute!
You are so talented!
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I think I may need a seedling sweater!!! What a brilliant idea!!!! You are a very talented lady…….
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What else would a bunny want on her dress than lovely juicy seedlings! I hope yours fair better than ours ever do, they usually get eaten by slugs! Beautiful dress and I like the touch of crochet for the collar, it works really well.
Rosy x
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Hi Julie, I love your gardening posts. I haven’t grown veg since pre children (8 years!) but am excited to start again this year now I have more time on my hands and some new space in the garden!
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I love seed magic too!
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That is a perfect little seedling dress!
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What a dear little dress! It’s lovely how everything is suddenly growing – I found a flower on my peas this morning!
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OOOHHH NNOO!! That sweet little dress looks to me like it belongs on a “Sweet Little Elephant”. Don’t you think?
WPGGAL
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hi julie!
love the dress!!! will look smashing on anything you make! and the lettuce looks amazing too. yum-yum!
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Your little lettuces look so much better than mine. But my green beans are doing well this year. Such fun to grow (some of) your own veggies, isn’t it?
Love the little dress!
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Simply stunning bunny dress xox Love it!
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Hi Julie
That is the cutest dress and will make one of the best dressed bunnies.
So, so cute, clever you
Davina x
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Stuff the bunny (pun intended!) I want that dress!
I’ve gone a bit mad with the veg seeds this year – if it all comes to fruition we won’t have to visit the greengrocer for a while. I cheated & bought courgette plants though :0(
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So impressed with all your seedlings. And I love the seedling dress! K x
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OMG that is the sweetest thing I’ve seen in a long time!
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So sweet! Love your little creations and their outfits!!
My eldest son is crazy about growing plants from seed so we have quite a bit on the go this year. Love seeing how yours are progressing as you are a bit ahead of us in Canada.
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That bunny dress is to die for! It really does look like your little seedlings. I can’t wait to see the finished product.
Wow! Your lettuce looks fantastic! I’d hoped to get my veggies in the ground this week but it has been nothing but cold temperatures and drenching rain. Good thing I ‘spose since I am on the couch. If not, I’d be grinding my teeth! 😀
Someday, I’d like a greenhouse. Trying to start seeds inside with two dogs and 7 Native’s tripping all over them has failed too many years in a row. I give up! 😀
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Hi Julie
Beautiful dress, delicate colors!
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I feel the same way about planting, gotta stat with seeds. I’m always so amazed when the little things pop up.
Love the dress.
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Julie, that little dress, its perfect seedlings and its tiny collar are hard to believe. Good grief.
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Oh, that dress is so CUTE! And… do I spy a little crochet there on the collar?
(Looking at your work inspired me to start crocheting, oddly enough – even though it’s your knitted bunnies I love. I can’t knit at all, but I could crochet a tiny bit as a child, so I thought the quickest route in to making nice things would be that. So, thank you, because I love it).
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No seedlings here. Just rain, rain, and more rain. Unfortunately, rain brings floods so we’re praying, crossing our fingers, and our toes too.
Love the seedling dress. Adorable
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omg sooo cute!
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Julie, I am never disappointed when I drop by your blog! Lovely pictures always greet me and your wonderful knitting charms and inspires! Thanks for the little ray of sunshine on this rainy day!
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Now I envy you.
You wip up the most adorable cotton rabbit dress and photograph it like a pro.
And intarsia with cotton. I hate it, but of course with you, it´s looking soo good…
So as always. You´re amazing: you just have to look at your blogpost if your not convinced.
I am. Convinced.
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Delizioso!
You are fantastic.
Bravissima.
Francesca
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Oh! That seedling dress is just adorable! I wish my courgette seeds had grown as succesfully as yours – for the first time in years I sowed 15 seeds but only got 3 half chewed plants – a combination of rotting seeds and hungry slugs :o(
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That is just the most beautiful little dress Julie!!
I agree it’s facinating to watch seedlings grow and courgettes are definitely some of the best and how good do home grown courgettes taste!!
Vivienne x
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What a lovely design. I’ve been following your blog for a long time but first time to post. Could you add me to your mailing list? Id love to have a bunny with this pretty dress! Thanks Kat
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Oh my, your knitting is just the greatest! Ever! Please publish cute critter clothing line pronto!(make it easy for us challenged knitters please!) thanks, Texas
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I’ve been gardening lately too but my seedlings aren’t as perfect as yours, they are so cute! I love your new little dress design and can’t wait to see a bunny wearing it! Delightful! 🙂
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Oh gosh, that bunny dress is SO CUTE — you are SO CLEVER!
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Are you going to offer the dress pattern for sale 🙂 Too sweet 🙂
haPPy day ,
crystal
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I can smell the soil. I do love those first two little leaves. In my case, they almost always turn out attached to a plant that I hoped wouldn’t grow in my beds, but that’s because I don’t usually put seeds places on purpose. But in the beginning – that dark earth with the bright hopeful green pair unfolding, such a contrast – and really almost a metaphor – to be buried in earth, but spring forth with life. An interesting pattern to the design of almost everything. And then there are those who can’t see the design without itching to recreate it, and do, with their strong and Godly creative impulsion, celebrate the beautiful things over and over in different ways. To charm the hearts of the weary and flagging, and fan the beginnings and middles and even the full blown flames of joy in the minds of so many others.
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aaaaahhhhhh!!! too cute for words:) can’t wait to see the bunny!
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It will be a very lucky little cotton rabbit who gets to wear that dress! She will be charming.
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Oh Julie those little sprouts in the seedling dress! I love to see the magic that only you can weave! Beautiful.
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Cutest little seedling dress EVER! Truly inspired.
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What an absolutely darling little dress for a bunny. I always smile when I visit your blog, Julie.
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The little dress is so darling. Hoping that one day you will publish a bunny with dress pattern. You are so talented. And the cupcakes in the following post look absolutely yummy. You are such a good mom for making them for your daughter.
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I love that little dress! I can’t wait to see the bunny. I know I’ll never ever ever ever ever ever ever… ever own one of your creations. I’m just not quick enough.
But I love to pour over the pictures of them just the same.
Too sweet for words. As always. 🙂
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LOVE THIS DRESS/
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Adorable dress, pleeeese add me to your mailing list as I too would love to own one of your creations
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Gorgeous little knitted dress! It’s beautiful, and I love the inspiration for it.
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as always, your photos and posts are beautiful. Thank-you for sharing your world with us!
I bestow upon you a special award with instructions posted on my blog if you wish to accept and participate.
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