Yarnivorous

G'day all! Been a very busy bee recently. DH has sent me off looking for lots of stuff. I hop on the bus and go looking. I could drive the car but where is the fun in that? I can't knit and drive. He bought some speaker drivers recently and wants to make a set of speaker "boxes" like these . (Yes, seriously. Those are sewer pipes and fittings but not used we hope! LOL) So I've been out and about, looking for tubing and pipes and anything cylindrical that won't wobble too much (pipe flue is out). Then today I took him up to the local Michael's cos they had some stuff on special that is what he's been looking for. He is very pleased with what we got there. Then I hopped on my bike and went to the nursery to return two glazed pots and came home with this lot: (Including basil, corn, two strawberries to replace the ones I cooked on the hot weekend - oops! - a monarda (bee balm cos I love them) and a thyme or something) The girl who served me ...

G'day all! A while ago, I decided to pay up for the Tactile Fibre Club. I just went for the plain jane one not the fancy one cos I am no good with alpaca and just *knew* I'd get a whole heap of suri alpaca or something that I couldn't spin with. The first installment arrived two days ago (but I was quarantining myself and forgot to go pick it up from the apartment office). Yesterday I opened up the box to find THIS! Pretty eh? I am not at all a yellow person (which is funny cos yellow to me can mean either sunshine or cowardly custard and I like/am both). The yellow is weld. The blue, pink/red and yellow speaks to me more than the yellow but I can cope :-) (I was wearing a particularly lurid striped tshirt yesterday - the yellow of the fibre and of the tshirt almost match! I bet the cotton of the tshirt was not dyed with weld though.) I want to spin it up - this four oz of finn top - but I don't know what I could make out of it given I am only likely to end up wi...