January 26th, 2011

Today I spent mt day doing the 4 C's  Cleaning, crafting, cooking and chilling  Hubster took our 3,7, 9 and 15 year old to visit nana and I stayed home with our 12 and 17 year old.
!st we cleaned because we knew it would stay clean for the whole day with no small people making mess, then i got out the sewing machine and made 4 project bags and repaired 2 school dresses, then we baked fruit cake, pavlove and cookies and then i played with my spinning wheel for the rest of the afternoon/evening  whilst i watched grey's annatomy and spun up some fibre I bought from EGMTK's and dyed myself and I love how it has turned out :0)  I also started a new book "The cookie club"

An altogether wonderful day :0)

January 25th, 2011

Well my camera would not upload to my computer last night for some reason which seems to have resolved itself overnight!

Last night I was reunited with my knitting which i LEFT BEHIND!!! (how??, that's right it was the alpaca fumes from cute baby alpacas and their fibre) last Friday at a friends so I sat down and I knit for a while on this :0)

January 24h, 2011

My first attempt at embellishing knitting with duplicate stitch today produced this, it is one of the squares for the pink/green/cream blanket I showed earlier this month :0)  I really like it and can't believe I managed to do it!!  It is from a chart from Watermellish  who is running an embellish a long this month which was very motivating to make me actually try this :0)

                                                                        Here it is with just the duplicate stitch



 

and here with the chain stitch edging and  little seeds added :0)











January 23rd, 2011

I went to visit a new friend today and look at the lovely reading material sent home with me to peruse at my leisure (Thank You so much, I have enjoyed at least an hour looking already :0), I KNOW I will be making at least 3 tops from these plus a couple for Bella :0)

Those of you who know me, know how much I love Debbie bliss, Louisa Harding and Sirdar/Sublime patterns so this is like visiting a library that chose it's books just for me :0)

January 22nd 2011

All done :0)

250 metres/100 grams of merino/tussah silk plyed with silk thread :0)

Part 1 of my Let's start at the beginning swap knitting- An apple washcloth-pattern by Susan B Anderson :0)

January 21st, 2011

I've been a spinning :0)

Irubu merino/tussah silk top from EGMTK's

January 20th, 2011

Logan's bedtime story book bag and it's contents, we read at least 1 of these everynight and he loves them very much, I bought him a new book and it was gently rejected with we can read it tomorrow mummy, bedtime books must not be new books, only much loved books make it into the bedtime book bag and once in they never seem to leave again :0)