Yarnivorous

G'day all! Ok, the post title doens't make lots of sense but it may or may not rhyme... lol About six weeks ago I saw that my friend over at Celtic Caston was doing a knit along for a Berroco pattern called Aidez .  Well I hummed and hahhed over it (not hemmed and hawed - we have different vowel sounds to Americans!) and then saw some yarn in my very local yarn shop (The Tea Cozy) that would do nicely and umm, well, I started knitting.  After I bought the yarn (cascade Eco+ in purple heather, shade 7811), of course. Waiting for breakfast Despite a little issue with row gauge because I did not use the correct yarn and did not allow for row gauge to be off - always a critical issue in a raglan sleeved item and I knew it would be (ahem!) - it fits quite nicely.  It is nowhere near as loose as the model on the Berroco website. The back Hmm, I look like a bit of a linebacker there... not that we play American football much in my country.  I guess holding...

G'day all! This post comes to you care of my phone, as I have had another crack at breaking a computer (though I have not in any way damaged my work laptop, it's done it all by itself).  Celtic cast on has a knitalong happening for Aidez, a free Berocco pattern.  Excuse the lack of links, they are hard to do on the phone, no cut and paste.  I thought I'd best show my progress as the knitalong ends in a couple of weeks...ack, better get my skates on! Plus the shot is pretty average but what do you expect from a phone? So far, I have done both the sleeves and fifteen inches of the back, plus the fronts are now a good twelve inches long. This means that I should be able to get it done in two weeks, surely? I've knitted this much in just under three weeks. Time will tell! Thanks for the birthday wishes, btw, they were much appreciated! anon!

G'day all! Happy birthday to me!  It is my birthday in Australia but not quite here in Seattle yet. Birthday sorbet yesterday with my friend L. Over the years, finding out where I am from is becoming increasingly interesting to me.  Who am I?  Where am I from? This is something that is difficult - my parents are dead, my grandparents are long dead (my father's parents so long dead my mother never met them), my cousins are old enough to start popping their clogs....  I'm at least third generation, more like fourth generation Australian.  One of my sisters has traced our lineage back to the Second Fleet, she thinks (lots of people with the same names is an issue).  So yeah, not only am I a colonial, I probably have convict blood in me, a matter of some pride in Oz. This would look a lot nicer if embiggened. Apparently I look Dutch or possibly from some part of Sweden.  I don't look particularly Norwegian if the people I see around here a...