Continuation of previous post, updating y’all on Birthday Project the first.
It was all going so well.
I was following the pattern (although I like to treat food recipes as optional, I usually find that patterns make the results of knitting a lot more useable). I was churning out predictable, functional, working so far, sweater.
I took it [...]
Big sis sent me some genuine Australian WOOL (not just yarn, actual WOOL) and it turns out there’s enough of it to knit one of the two patterns I was drooling over, Timpani from the latest Twist Collective. In theory, anyway. I may get to the sleeves and find out that they need to be [...]
I’ve gone away for the weekend (my host is teaching in the next room, and there are airplanes overhead. A dog who bites post delivery operatives is in the house. The lady of the house is out watching WestLife. No prizes for guessing where I am: I’ve tweeted it, but I thought I’d share some [...]
I’ve been really pleased lately with progress made on various knitting projects . I’ve finished several, actually finished to the point where they can be worn (and admired, I’m pleased to say) in public without discomfort or self-consciousness. I’m pleased with them, they fit, the world is a happy, happy place.
This, of course, means that [...]
Joel, when he got up on Sunday morning, decided that today was a baking day. I couldn’t think of a good reason not to, so we did.
Here Joel is explaining to Daddy (who’s off camera, having not long got up. I thought, for the general ambience of The Blog, it was best to leave it [...]
Ever since I understood the concept of post, I’ve been collecting postcards. There have been various means – chain letters, penfriends, giveaway competitions and the odd shop here & there. I’ve trimmed them down a couple of times to take out the real dross, and there’s still a large shoe box in the spare room [...]
We’re back to the knitting!
This week I finished A Major Project – Duchess by purl alpaca designs. I started this project at a workshop Debbie and I booked as a “treat” weekend. I’d been feeling stressed and overworked, and wanted a real break and travelling across the country to knit and feed apples to alpaca [...]
FINALLY a project that was supposed to take me 17 days is finished*. OK, I missed the deadline, and the point, but in the manner of a runner who is finishing the London Marathon on Tuesday, I appreciate the cheers of those of you who’ve hung around to see me over the finish line.
I was [...]
On Good Friday, while Daddy painted the gloss in Joel’s bedroom, the rest of us went to see “How to train your dragon” – the new blockbuster from Dreamworks. It was very good – the story was absorbing, and it was only afterwards when Steve asked if it was obvious it was made for 3D [...]
This week, as was the case this time last year, spookily, Joel’s nursery finished the term with an Easter Bonnet Parade. In our house we have to refer to them as Easter Hats because Bonnets are for girls (Aunty Debbie can imagine exactly how that’s said – it’s in the same tone of voice Joel [...]
