Yarnivorous

G'day all! Y'know when I read that subject line, I see two ways to interpret it in particular. a) Nothing is better than a new project or b) What I am up to is actually an old project. Well I have TWO new projects on the needles! A new pair of socks (but as usual I am doing them toe up so the pattern is upside down) and a summer top for me. I've finished the second secret project, it is blocked, it has been admired, now it needs to be photographed and sent off to its recipient. Hooray for finishing stuff! I am contemplating writing it up and sending it to spin-Knitty. I have not finished some other bits and bobs - they are on hold pending the outcome of someone else's not very secret project. Wait a moment - I have to go rummage around for some photies. I've been a Very Dull Blogger recently - no photos! They won't relate to anything much but the blog must be fed photos. Mmmm, something good for you spinners out there. CVM/rambouillet. Like silver clo...

G'day all! Today I went and did a whole lot of things that were OUTSIDE the house! There is still a world out there! My car now has a roadworthy certificate - Gibbering will be happy to hear that. I have 30 fewer skeins of saleable handspun yarn (plus the ones that are ok but not noice that I put in the building fund box). (I have one 25g bag of Black Diamond to play with. Ooops.) I have half a carful-less junk that the Brotherhood can sell through their op shops. (I bought 6 small knitting pamphlets. Oops.) I have NEW glasses! Hooray for new glasses! They feel very different to the old ones, including the way my vision bends at the edges, plus they have little side thingies that I can see. They are pretty good though I reckon and are a good colour on me. (Haven't I got one helluva squint? Plus I have pretty bad bags under my eyes - 24/7 stress isn't good for me!) My private health insurance (Aussies have publicly funded health care which we whinge and moan about ...