Yarnivorous

O! mosquito! How I hate thee! How I hate thy whine The shrillness of which hurts mine ear And disturbs mine sleep. O! Mossie! Why dost thou bite me even though I am covered in Aeroguard so heavily I cannot stand mine own stench? How dost thou find me despite the obscuring odour? What is thy fascination with finding the edge of my shoe or sock and biting me there? How I detest thy bite which raises lumps the size of 10 cent pieces or larger than american quarters or 10p bits if you are English. Lumps that have interesting contours and follow my lymph, or my blood vessels, take your choice. How I wish my dear father in law were here, for you love him even more than you love me, and you would bite him and cause him much itchiness. Better him than me. How I hate thee, mossie. Go and find someone else's flesh to bite and procure blood for your horde of eggs and new mossies. Dear husband, hand me my antihistamines and cortisone cream so that I may no longer scratch. If I am lucky. Ah.....

G'day all! I have deliberately made a little blogging time tonight. Go stick yourself on my Frappr. Please :-) It is pathetic at present. We are all lonely on it. It's on my side bar. So here is the picovoli. Do you reckon the neck is a bit more draped then I would like? (image not clickable)(mental note for self - trakky dax not good look under picovoli)(extra mental note for self - fix up the puckered yarn join on the front porch area) I am exploring fixes for it at the moment. My current favourite is to run some ribbon/organza through the picots and tighten it up that way. Probably won't work though. Any ideas? Hmm, my brilliant plan last week was to get together an afghan for our favourite Crazy Aunt, but it is going to go by the by. I can't raise enough people and I also can't get anyone in the USA to sew the thing together. I should've organised this at the beginning of November but I was flat chat then keeping the house and the cats going in ab...

G'day all! Well my days are simply flying by at present. I am not getting much chance to blog, although now that the world championship gymnastics is over and done with I'll regain two hours of doing things other than knitting and watching magnificent bods fling through the air. Have to say though that shortening Anastasia to Nastia is not making it a very pretty name, at least not in my books.... (one of the American girls is Anastasia Liukin, aka Nastia. Very good gymnast but horrid name). I've been doing stuff, I've got pics of some lovely sunsets, I've got pics of flowers and of knitting but do I have time to edit them let alone post them? No! No chance even to put some links in, though I have a few. Sigh. Nope it is time to sleep instead. Sleep, blessed sleep.... anon!

G'day all! Well it's been a busy time around here and sure to get busier as I compact all of my Stuff (tm) in preparation for moving. Plus I've cooked up a Crazy scheme to help out a fellow knitblogger (email me if you want more info! natiel3atyahoodotcom It is very exciting!) and I think I'm just a wee tad nuts. So here is what I've been working on this week. After about a week of being faithful to the picovoli tshirt, suddenly I realised that I had to work on my diamond blossom scarf from Modular Knits . It just had to be done. So without further ado, I give you the diamond blossom scarf (you may need to adjust your monitor's brightness) in four different colourways of some ancient Patons Jet 12 ply carefully hand-dyed with food colouring last year. I reckon it is waaay cool. You probably think it is waaaaay too lurid! Admittedly the picture does not capture the colours well but it will do.... You weren't happy enough just seeing the whole scarf? W...

G'day all! Not much at all to report. We got the Archicentre report regarding the hosue today - nathan was reading through going oh, we'll have to fix this, oh we'll need to fix that, but it is quite frankly nothing that we didn't expect to have to do in the first place.... Like the shower is likely to leak. Well we were going to replace it anyway. Knitting is happening. So is fleece processing. Now the me too is all about me joining the frappr mob. Yep! Me too! Me too! So please add yourself to the map - I'd love to visit you! Erin has joined the umm not exactly madding throng of knit/spin bloggers :-) When you click on my Frappr button (on the right side bar) you can add yourself on the right side of the Frappr page. If you put your URL in the shoutout, I can visit you even more easily! :-) OK, well I'll keep tidying up here. I keep finding little stashes of yarn around the place. And fleece. This is much better than stash diving - it is like S ...

G'day all! On Saturday, I bought some fluff. It doesn't look very fluffy in this picture though: Here's a lock of it: It's from a yearling 3/4 Australian Finnsheep (if that makes sense) 1/4 merino cross-bred ewe. I bought it cos it felt nice. Greasy but nice. Soft. $20 for 1.8 kilos of fleece (in the grease). I've never played with a whole sheep fleece before. So I read up a bit on the net and got me buckets of the hottest water I could get out of the heater, put woolwash into one and soaked a few little bits. It came out white! Not apricot or grey but white! Pure white! So on Sunday I got serious and did a whole bunch o fleece. It only took about an hour to carefully wash the tips of say 400g. Here's a little of the fluff washed and dried: You can't see the lock structure but it is there. And then combed up: And that one snail of combed tops became this little skein of yarn, somewhere between fingering and 5 ply/sport weightish: It wants to spin f...

G'day all! It's been a busy weekend! Saturday was insane from the moment it started to the moment we eventually got home. It started poorly when I had some weird allergic reaction (waking up with your heart rate at about 160 is NOT fun!), and didn't get to sleep until after 1am. At 7:30 I was up and at it. Made some pancakes for breakfast, plus some pikelets for an event later in the day, then eventually made it to the guild (45 minute drive) to buy some extra special supplies (more on that next time!), back again via Uncle Rick's for some GF, DF goodness :-), off to Oakleigh to buy nuts and seeds and flowers for the Event, plus the cat food. Home again, arrange flowers (accidentally delete pictures of flower arrangements whilst downloading them), discover I can make a second arrangement out of the native plants in the garden :-), get changed and then off to The Event! (Faces pixelated to hide the "innocent") (in other words, I don't have permission t...