Yarnivorous

G'day all! I seem to be very busy at the moment. I am certainly finding plenty to occupy my days. Today I briefly admired the material I cut up yesterday for the quiltalong. Can I just say that I am in awe of anyone who can make a quilt whilst looking after kids/dads/family and holding down a job? The amount of time needed, the space, the sharp tools... It took me a good couple of hours to cut out all of these. Admittedly along the way I had to argue with myself about what to do about this sort of thing - look at the line of dots in that folded in half fabric! The edges and the centre are not exactly in line. This seems to be very common with printed material. I presume the middle gets left behind a bit when the fabric travels through all the rollers. Then I took the bus to one of my favourite op shops. I was very bad. I bought more stuff. I shall show it off when I have it dry (and can take pics in daylight). I rode to another op shop and bought more stuff, including a Fo...

G'day all! Last Sunday, I took my first ever knitting class. Yes you heard aright - my first ever knitting class. Why don't I take classes usually? Well many of them cover things I already know how to do and they cost money too. I am cheap (but not easy!) and have learned to do things by figuring them out from written instructions, pictures or even the odd you tube. But this class was going to teach me some stuff about sleeves that I could not easily figure out myself. It was going to show me how to do sleeves from the top down. And I figured that was well worth paying for. I only enrolled on Friday - I figured that since there was one spot left, it was fated that I should do that class. And I did. And it was good and I learned how to do sleeves from the top down. Lorna Miser has spent a fair whack of time working out how to do the sleeve cap from the top down and should benefit from it, so I am not going to say how we did it! The weird blue thing shows the sleeve caps an...