Yarnivorous

G'day all! What odd weather we are having here! 18C (mid 60s F) and humid. Just a bit warm for a jacket but too cool without one, but as soon as one goes for a brisk walk (pulling a hand cart full of vegies from the farmers' market) one breaks out into a sweat. Ick. Now it is drizzling. So on Friday, I pulled the sock for May. Just to show you it was all done properly, here's the loaded trolley: And the arm pulling out this month's PSC baggie: (I guess that is a plug for the Tattered Cover but anyone who lives in Denver, likes books and does not go to the Tattered Cover needs their head read. Great bookshop!) and the lucky winner: REDHEART!!! Heart & Sole to make some Rainbow socks . Except I have to do them toe up and magic loop, neither of which is written into the pattern. How I modified it so far. Magic loop means the start is confusing. Especially if one insists that the start of the round is The Start Of The Round And Can Never Be Moved. So I knitted ...

When merry lads are playing Tralala, tralala-lalalalala, lalala-la-la-lala! Each with his bonny lass Upon the greeny grass Tralala etc etc. (I thought you might like a musical interlude from my misspent uni years, when I used to sing with a madrigal group. We were all into the SCA and frocking up (including the chaps in some instances ;-) and signing and dancing and eating and avoiding the politicking. We had lots of fun :-) So it is four years since my father died. It is funny cos whilst I miss the person he had been, I don't miss the poor old thing that died. My father had moved on years earlier, leaving only a shell. I guess dementia does that to a person. I have been working on pulling out of my funk - thanks for the kind words and offers! I should take some of those up. It would be fun to see people more often and do stuff more often, not that I am unbusy here. The hardest part is living in an apartment where there basically is no guest parking - every unit has one par...

G'day all! In a rush to the wire, I finished my second pair of Lenore yesterday. I am amazed at how quickly I knitted the foot. I turned the heel on the Scary Formula 1 Bus Ride the other day and then zoomed along the foot. Even the grafting of the toe went smoothly - I usually stick the needle in in the wrong direction at least once. (Doncha love how the foreshortening makes ankles look thick?) (This one makes my ankles look skinny and my feet quite odd) Pattern: Lenore Yarn: umm Hand Artist as I like to call it cos I lost the label and don't know which it is of Fleece Artist or Hand Maiden. The colour is reasonably accurate. I thought the camera would barf out on the red but it didn't. Of course one of these socks isn't really a Lenore at all but we will forgive it. -- In other news, we are about to hit my least favourite time of year. May. I know many people love May (at least in the northern hemisphere) but I don't like it. It is a deathiversary month. ...

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...

G'day all! I've been wondering what would grease the wheels of social intercourse on this blog. Admittedly being on blogger doesn't help because it doesn't give me your email addy = harder to reply to you cos I have to go find your address (and if you don't have a blog and I don't have your email anyway I'll never reply! And you will be sad, or at least think I am rude). So, without further ado, I give you What is it Monday? (You can click through to Flickr if you want to see a bigger version.) Da ROOLZ: Each week I am going to take a pic, most likely a macro shot, of something. Email me at natiel-three-one-one at gmail dot com (replace likely numbers and symbols with their keyboard equivalents) with your guess. Whoever guesses correctly gets a point. Note that I don't want you to comment with your guess cos then everyone else knows too! Send me an email instead :-) At some point in the future, I will offer the person with the most points a prize,...

Lest we forget. (More on ANZAC Day in past bloggings .)

G'day all! Do you ever wonder if you will ever catch up on all the things that need to be done? This week's theme at Meet Me at Mike's is catching up. Catching up means different things to different people. I managed to catch up with some friends on Thursday night. One is having chemo and is getting a bit bored every second week (the week she doesn't have chemo, ie when she has a little energy). It was lovely to sit and chat and do some crafting (even if I can't count and stuffed up a very very simple lace pattern - silly me!). Could this be the start of a square jumper (sweater)? Another thing I've caught up on is my charity knitting. Yes, the squares for bushfire victims are finally done and sent off! It feels so good to have them gone :-) (I love how wonky they look. They were tedious but the effect is great and I am now thinking maybe I'll do smaller squares, some missing their middles, for an afghan or throw or lap blanket.) For the squares, I c...