Yarnivorous

G'day all! Been a very busy bee recently. DH has sent me off looking for lots of stuff. I hop on the bus and go looking. I could drive the car but where is the fun in that? I can't knit and drive. He bought some speaker drivers recently and wants to make a set of speaker "boxes" like these . (Yes, seriously. Those are sewer pipes and fittings but not used we hope! LOL) So I've been out and about, looking for tubing and pipes and anything cylindrical that won't wobble too much (pipe flue is out). Then today I took him up to the local Michael's cos they had some stuff on special that is what he's been looking for. He is very pleased with what we got there. Then I hopped on my bike and went to the nursery to return two glazed pots and came home with this lot: (Including basil, corn, two strawberries to replace the ones I cooked on the hot weekend - oops! - a monarda (bee balm cos I love them) and a thyme or something) The girl who served me ...

G'day all! I have a number of projects on the boil at the moment. Ages ago, at the Stitches and Craft Fair in Melbourne nearly 12 months ago (feels like a different life and I guess it was!) I saw a fabulous jacket, all garter stitch knitted up in Noro silk garden I think (I remember it having more silk garden type yarn than kureyon). It was asymmetric and made me think of Jedis. Well I Had To Have One For Me! And I hunted down the book - I had to drive all over town cos the book was discontinued. And there was much rejoicing cos I had driven about 150km to find this danged book, and I got it for about 50c! Hooray! Then I discovered I had already bought it three months earlier at a Christmas sale at my LYS. Ooops. I've remembered that jacket/wrap thing for some time and finally I had the yarn for it - a cashmere/wool blend from a thrift store jumper I unravelled. The yarn is all in greys but I can overdye it. I have some very nifty ideas about how to do that too. (I doubt...