Yarnivorous

Whoopsie! Four years of Yarnivorous came and went on the 19th of August and I didn't even notice. Happy blogiversary to me! Belated of course, cos I am a dodo-brain. LOL I shall think up a contest and post something yummy to win soon! Goodness, into my fifth year of blogging - lovely to have met you all, must change my commenting system so that I can actually reply to you without having to know your email address.... anon!

G'day all! I am so excited about having nearly finished Mystery Stole 3 that I keep not knitting it. Given that I just realised that I still have over 2500 stitches to go, I'd best keep going, eh? I've been busy this week - have to put up a post on Victorian, on the Move for our trip to a local iconic attraction (or two). I've been frantically knitting this shawl - I'm on the easy bit now that I can just work by remembering the pattern, not having to read the graph for every row for every stitch.... DH has been melting down in a bad way and I am seriously considering finding a GOOD doctor and shoving him at them, only finding good doctors is hard and expensive ($250 for an initial visit!!! CRIKEY!). It's also HOT! In the mid 30s all week! (Thats 90s for Americans) Makes it hard to go out and look at stuff. So much for this idea the summer "ends" on labour day weekend, which has just passed. I was healed today. A guy on the train came and bles...

G'day all! Have you ever walked in to a shop and thought, "This feels right. I like it here!" The other day the temps hit the old ton, or 38C. That was the day I decided to take my bike into Nathan's work, pick up some printouts that I need (why no, we don't have a printer cos the one we want does not have linux drivers) and then cycle off to places far. I knew I had to ride up a certain road to get to the place I wanted to go and then I had to go a little west. It was a little tad warm but on the bike it feels cooler than walking cos you make your own breeze. I thought I only had to go maybe a couple of miles, say 3km. That is very do-able on the bike. Anyway, I rode and I rode and I rode. I rode and rode a bit further. Then I got to the end of the road (literally) and did not recognise where I had to go, having never been there before. So I guessed the direction and rode that way, and you know what? After about 4 miles of riding, all up, I found the plac...

G'day all! The fun continues here - it's all knitting, spinning, watering plants and hauling wood from the timber yard on the bike trailer... (That's the wood to build the legs and rails of a table to stick our plants on - no top for it yet though cos I can't fit it on the trailer with the other wood.) It's been stinking hot here recently and our flat is hot hot hot. Even though it is only 21C out at present, things have gotten hot. Yes we could use the air con but that doesn't seem to cool the place down a lot for very long. Instead we have fans going. Even the rangehood is on - it vents to the outside!!! Lawksamercy me, fancy having a rangehood that vents outside... Now, if this doesn't make you feel old, nothing will. Yes Whacko Jacko, Michael Jackson himself, the bloke who was top of the pops when I came of age, has turned 50. Fifty. You could knock me over with a feather... anon!

G'day all! Doncha love it when your neighbour steps out for a "private" chat on their mobile phone? Of course since they are talking on a mobile (or cell, your choice), they talk LOUDER. And they tell ALL THEIR NEIGHBOURS THEIR PERSONAL PROBLEMS. I guess because we care. Not! I finished somethings! (It's Sockama bin Nathan!) Hooray! Hope they fit DH ok. And they are not quite matching cos some nong didn't pull enough of the guts of the ball out, not realising how the pattern was set up at that state (two lots of brown, not just one). More later. anon!

G'day all! Tomorrow is DH's birthday. He already has his major present (an electronic piano) but he gets a pair of socks from me each year. Not just any old socks, no, socks handknitted by me. They are mostly orange socks, though he does have two pairs of blue handknitted socks cos I bought the yarn for me and it ended up being for him. I still have another two inches to knit on the chevron ditto socks. I've been doing them two at a time on magic loop. I am blaming them for my right forearm getting sore, but it could be any number of things - riding pretty much every day except for two in the last two weeks, having to hang on to the coffee grinder whilst grinding coffee (I don't drink coffee, btw), knitting 5000 million gazillion items recently, compensating for my left wrist after I sprained it last week... all sorts. But what it means is I have to take frequent breaks. That is annoying as I can't get a good rhythm up, and I haven't got the things fin...

G'day all! I would like to show off the massive progress I've made on Nathan's socks but really? Another 1.5 repeats is not exactly exciting. Instead you get to see some other stuff. Like the red tank I am making for myself. It is a mixture of the Ballet Camisole that used to be on Magknits, now on Ravelry, and Soleil from Knitty. (Yep, too lazy to put the links in. Oh ok, I've added the one for Soleil as I do have the page handy, like one of a thousand tabs on Firefox.) I am knitting it with an 80% cotton 205 wool blend from cascade. I've been working on my Mystery Stole 3. For months it looked just a little further along than this: Then it looked like this (black line to give some idea of where it was before I picked it up last week after it guilted me into doing something about it): And two days ago it had this extra bit on it: It now has even more repeats of the flower motif. We've had some visitors recently: (This devil came in the front door and when ...