SHOCK HORROR!!

I didn't even pick up my needles at all yesterday, not even for one little row! Ah I just remember that is a complete lie! Phew! I was worried for a minute there, me and anth did knit over a up of tea when we got home, (shall I just repeat that sentence again, me and ANTH knitted over a cup of tea!!!) LOL!

I knitted up a sample of the pure silk yarn I dyed, and also my soya silk, which is really fine, and has a slight texture of nylon I think, it drapes like a fine wool, and has a slight feel which is stange, I can't think of the word at the moment, but I'll amend the blog when I think of it.

I will definately post pictures of both samples tomorrow. I just had inspiration as what to do with my green tape yarn from the US, I love wearing small skirts over trousers in the summer, and I am a bit mad on sage/olive greens, so I think I may design a skirt and make a crocheted one for this very pupose! ( I am currently wearing what looks like a sarong over my trousers, which everyone thinks is lovely, little do they know I fished it out of my material box this morning and wrapped it around and tyed it up (he he).

Going now to look for inspiration.

Oooh! Only 4 days to do until stitch and bitch cardiff! Yeah!!!

jeni :-)

Not finished anything! Continued with my lacey top, and the stripey one, nearly on the second peice of the back, I am desperate to finish them and start some new stuff now, But I will continue! I have found a cheap sustitute for Rowan cotton glace, (links soon). Finished spinning a skein of soya silk, and its lovely. I also ordered some samples of pure silk to knit, and have dyed them, they are still hanging on the tree in my back yard drying, and the back door is stuck closed so I couldn't be bothered to climb out the window this morning to retrieve them, but I will take photo's this evening and post them tomorrow, if succesful, I might be able to sell some on ebay, I'll have to see.

Thats it! Oh not quite, 'A' knitted alot over the weekend (he carries it everywhere with him, he is starting to be able to talk and knit as well!) and then this morning I caught him browsing through my latest Rowan mag, and he commented that he would like to knit some things from the denim book. I was unable to speak at this point for fear of screamng in delight. If he gets truly hooked, it may mean we will be sitting side by side in the south of france knitting on our Honeymoon, if this happens I will die a happy woman.

jen :-)

Converting non-knitters

I was due to post a picture of my Lynettes fantastic scarf ( my newly introduced knitter) and I think it has got lost in Cyber space, I'm sure it will turn up soon.

Finished the front peice of the stripey top and am now due to start the back. Still working on the front of the lacey top, but a few lines a day keeps the unfinished projects at bay!

Converting knitters:

So now I have persuaded my partner to knit, my lodger has finished her cheen'a'bean dog waistcoat (don't even consider trying to work out where the hell the name cheen'a'bean came from, its best left undiscovered) Lynette has finished her scarf and is onto the next, my smaller stepson has knitted a scarf, what can I say? It won't be long and knitters will have conquered the world.

So thats it probably until monday, and hope fully with some pictures of somethig I have finished!!

Anths Jumper

Nearly finished the first side of my stripey top, and still going with the lace!

Here is a picture of A's jumper, its very neatly knitted, and he did a tension square as well!!

I was so proud!

A lucky woman.

'A' has started knitting a jumper. Finally!! he did give up a few times, but took his own advice and decided to do it properly and make it into a meditation excercise! Apparently its very theraputic to breath in over three stitches and blow out over three. All I have to say is thats Expedient means for you!

If it means he becomes as knitting obsessed as me, I will encourage him with what ever eastern philosophical means I can find, (A is obsessed by anything chinese/japanese).

I'll take a sneaky picture and post it tomorrow. he has even hinted that he might like to do something rather summery in cotton!! LOL!!

Oh, by the way it turns out he is a grammar god.

I couldn't wait!

I got sick of the lace, and had to start the colour project, so I'll be alternating them!

worked all weekend, so I am struggling to type this, this morning so its gonna be short, because I need to save my energy for my normal job! So here the product of last nights efforts with colour ( the picture does not accurately reflect the colours)



Here is a close up:



The green line is two different greens alternated, this was brilliant fun to do, although I'm not to sure about the goldon yellow yet.

Dreams

I had a dream last night about my grammar being so bad that I wasn't allowed a blog anymore. I think that came from reading yesterdays blog and knowing that the grammar isn't right, but not sure why!

So instead of getting excited i'll just keep it simple, and I'll start reading my grammar book, and see if I can learn it in a different way. I can computer programme for goodness sake, so being dyslexic doesn't mean I can't learn the rules of language, I just need a new way to learn them. (If there are any regular readers, try and imaging me talking instead of writing, it helps the blurb make more sense!)

Now for some knitting content after all thats why we are on this earth! Progress on the top: doing sleeve shaping. Thats it!

Oh and decided to trim down my stash a bit because there are yarns which I probably won't use, and I don't have enough room for them all (spring cleaning mode!) I was thinking of flogging them on Ebay, but if there is anyone who would be prepared to pay the postage you can have them, they are mainly synthetic fibres some grey sirdar snowflake and other strange things.

I'll have a good sort through tonight and take some pictures and if anyone takes a fancy, let me know.

Happy spring knitting.