Yarnivorous

G'day all! I had my first proper haircut this arvo. I got rid of the duck's butt/mullet, and have a style cut. Is skeered now. Is looking like my mother. Except my photo is skewed again... It must be a bug in mobile blogger. Is very skeered. But the haircut is pretty cute. Must work out what I am taking to the usa...  We leave on tuesday! This extremely shallow post brought to you by poet's day. Anon!

G'day all! I'm still plugging away at Aeolian and Blood Orange. OMG, they are starting to get tough, simply due to the number of stitches. Citron/Blood Orange is basically stocking stitch (stockinette). Every few rows, it doubles in stitch count then a few rows later halves the number of stitches on the needles. Lots of good plain knitting for when my brain is fried! Aeolian. Oh lordie, this one is getting to me now! It is taking an hour to do a row and back. Two rows and I've had enough. I only have 3 major pattern rows to go, but when I took this pic yesterday, I wasn't far into the edging. I thought the nupps (said noops, I hope nupp is a transliteration of the Estonian, otherwise I'll go sick at Americans who say doo for due (dew) - no wonder we can't say noop cos we see nup, as in nup, wasn't me!) would drive me insane but they are much more fun than beads! You can see one of my ginormous nupps in the top left of the pic above. I've tried th...

G'day all! My (Rav)Olympic reports have disappeared! AKA I forgot to take pictures, two days in a row. Ooops. It's been a choice of cook and eat tea or take pictures. Given I've got an appetite and a half currently, I'm happy to cook and eat. Well the knitting is continuing apace. I am past the transition chart of Aeolian and into what the 11th or 13th row of the edging. The fun part is will I have enough yarn? Also, I made the classic mistake of putting a lifeline through the stitchmarkers, and I've made these stitchmarkers well enough that I had to break the life line to release them. I just stuck some beading elastic through the hole of the knitpicks interchangeables and knitted across, forgetting to take the stitchmarkers out for that row. 8-D But I am in good company - Mrspao also has done it and I am sure that pretty much everyone has done it at some point.... I am onto the third section of my Blood Orange (citron) shawlette/scarfy thing. My hair hasn...

G'day all! I am having real difficulty working out a good title for this post. Today I cut my hair off. As I set the scissors (the new Good scissors, with the spring action not the usual lever affair) to my hair, I felt a little nervous. I've never had hair shorter than jaw length, well apart from when I was a baldie baby. But I cut it, cos I'd prefer to have the hair and be able to use it rather than have it clog the shower drain (which it may well do anyway). Then I got DH to tidy it up a bit. From the front, it looks like I've got my hair pulled back, well similar to that. The cut is not going to win any awards by any stretch of the imagination. I'm surprised by how dark my hair is - the underside away from the sun is quite a dark blonde. Still blonde though - the light catches it as blonde. More a caramel colour not bright straw like I am used to. It feels very odd not to have long hair. My scalp feels weird. When I tip my head back, no hair sorta bunche...