I finished this orange and lime green hand knit bikini! There were a lot of fun memories knit into it: hot summer days and breezy summer nights. It’s as hot as it gets here in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. I enjoyed sitting in the back deck watching Jay and our wee one splash around in the inflatable pool. We’re making as many memories as we can of our home before we leave at the end of the month to spend the summer in Maine.

Tom Cooz ran his fingers through the stitches on my bikini bottom one night. I was beginning the crotch rows and I told him I was knitting our moment together into it. I was telling him how knitting is similar to binary code, arrangements of 1′s and 0′s, knits or purls. He said women spies during the early 20th century wars used to send information through knitting. A new skill in Super Spy Chick‘s arsenal!

I realize the photo I have above doesn’t show off the bikini too well, so I’m posting another photo which shows the bikini off better (but reveals more of my post-motherhood belly than I really want to show).