Lizzie and I went out for tea just after Christmas and she brought her monkey friend to meet HP6. They quickly became friends and started to get into monkey mischief. They even got interested in sock knitting. But they really liked going to the bookshop to sit on the rocking horse.
… for preemie hats! I can’t believe it is the end of January already! I still have a few to send off to Jeanne so must get on and do that soon. Hopefully, Jeanne now has over the target of 150 she set herself. It is a lovely project and I’ve had fun knitting these [...]
13 pairs of socks plus two single socks 7 preemie hats 2 baby bibs 3 shawls – 2 Birch and 1 Kiri 1 Eloise cardigan 1 pair knee high socks 1 scarf 1 teddy bear 1 Casablanca sweater 1 hat 1 baby blanket Yes, I’m acutely aware we are almost a 1/12th of the way [...]
I’ve been working on these socks during the week – I really like the purpley background of these. I like the name of the colourway Mirage Fog – it is another of the Kaffe Fassett yarns. I got the yarn on my trip to iKnit in December. I’m usually quite good about knocking out sock [...]
I just missed out on the Central Park Footie contest but I thought it would be fun to grab some of the kitties and take photos of their dainty paws anyway. Ophelia has lovely white paws. I love her tufty fluffy bits. Her back paws are equally as tufty and pretty. Perdita’s paws are the [...]
I loved these Fyberspates Blue Faced Leicester socks. The berry shades are a departure from my normal colour palate and they look great. When I visited iKnit in early December, I picked up this supersoft Artesano Hummingbird Alpaca. I like the way these have turned out. I had a bit of an alpaca addiction this [...]
I am a very lucky mrspao indeed! I won one of Becky‘s prizes in her ‘A little something’ contest. She sent some gorgeous Lang Jawoll in lovely black and purple and some gorgeous lavender hand cream. Thank you, Becky! There was a beautiful sunset over the green the other day – it was absolutely gorgeous! [...]
Today’s thankyous go to Chris and Jeanne. pao was so excited when the box arrived, he made me stop everything I was doing so I could open it right away. Right on the top, nestled in some yarn for a felted penguin was a wonderful bag of Bugles and still whole. I can’t believe that [...]
I’m finished!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much to everyone who sent comments and good wishes. You are all so lovely and supportive and it was wonderful to read them all. 5,797 words written and submitted for scrutiny. Not the best essay I’ve ever written and believe me at 2am this morning it didn’t make a whole [...]
Thank you everyone who has been in touch in the last few days. I passworded my last post because I did not want to be publically critical. I have been letting people have the password if they’ve emailed me. The last week has been very hard. I’ve cried for most of 5-6 days and felt [...]