Archive for the ‘knitting’ Category
Tweet Oh my! After seven days of turgid grey, look at that sky! Glorious, glorious sun and blue. YuM! Every other possible activity for the day is shelved … we simply must head out to the garden and soak up that sun. It will renew our spirits for sure. I fill the line with every [...]
Tweet Oh the rain. Oh the cold. Oh the gloom. Oh that shut up inside the house feeling … surrounded by wet washing! The solution? Plenty of yarn, tricksy knitting, and a yummy mostly-pieced quilt top dug out of the back of the cupboard … Best friends from Brisbane, riotous games of monopoly, and beautifully [...]
Tweet I mentioned a while ago that I am knitting Kate Davies’ pretty, pretty cardigan, Blaithin (Irish for little flowers), for Abby this winter. It’s a chance to play with the fair isle technique some more (eeek … still not quite finished my milo tin warmer) but if I’m honest, it was the photos of [...]
Tweet outside my window, the wintry air is icy crisp. the glass is frosty to my touch. and yet, gently warming sun oozes through the window behind me, making the room sparkle. truly makes my heart light and spirit blithe. I do so love the cold … when it is sunny. … as I munch [...]
Tweet Isn’t this just the way of things. I’m finally free of study and essays and pracs and placements and what do I do? Tackle all the unfinished projects? Get stuck into something lovely and new and marvellous? Heck no! I’ve been dithering. Dithering with yarn. Dithering with thrifted wool and embroidery thread. Dithering with [...]
Tweet Again! For the last four weeks, Abby and I have been expecting to attend a craft group. For several reasons, none of our making, it has not happened. And we don’t find out until the last minute. This week, there we were, freshly showered, all dressed up and nowhere to go. Again! So we [...]
Tweet Well … there’s no snugly dressed milo tin. Mmmhmm. What’s the problem, you say. You’ve had a whole day with almost nothing else to do but sit on your butt and knit! I know. I did. I knit and knit and knit and knit and knit. Or more accurately, I knit and rearranged balls [...]
Tweet Several evenings ago, a stash of candles were purchased, an empty and unemployed milo tin dug out of the laundry cupboard, afore mentioned candles were dropped into it, and it was placed atop the piano, next to our nightly candle holders, for easy access. I lit the candles … including a pair Abby and [...]
Tweet (photos courtesy of my dear Abby) Ooooooh! It is so chilly here today. Strong, gusty winds roaring up the bay from the Antarctic and squally rain. It’s been building up to this all week – my first week of nursing placement. Each morning, I slide out of bed at 4.50am, quickly wriggle into my [...]
Tweet I could say “.. well almost” but that wouldn’t really be true. There has indeed been some full blown foot stamping and screaming today. I finished my razor lace cardie … blocked it … tried it on … and all my worst fears were confirmed. This cardie has been SUCH a pain to knit. [...]
Tweet Oh my! It’s been so many weeks since I lasted visited here. What a slacker! These past weeks have been filled with essays, exams, pracs, an absent husband/father (3 whole weeks!), solo mothering (of the girly, furry and feathered varieties), a visiting mum/nan, a whole week all by myself (oh that was so long [...]
Tweet … looking at my kitchen bench this weekend, I recognised with satisfaction the change of season that is upon us. Instead of rows of soft and sweetly smelling stone fruit, the bench is heavy with pumpkins and cabbages. There are bowls of walnuts instead of berries. The last of the summer tomatoes are ripening [...]