Saturday, October 28, 2006

New Toy

On Wednesday night I got my new toy.... An Ashford Knitting Loom!!! Yeay!! And well.... not much housework has been done the last 3 days! So, here are the photos of the stuff I've done:

The three Scarves in closer detail....




Rory and the three scarves (he wanted to be in the photo!)

Monday, October 23, 2006

Photos...


Back of baby aran jumper, still under construction...


Finished pink / burgundy bag!

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Finished pink/burgundy bag.

Hey all.
Well, another week has gone by... Wasn't sick this week.. Yeay!

However, it wasn't that great again either. Rory (our son) managed to get himself 2 days of internal suspension (where are technically suspended, but still have to go to school - does work in the office all day) He had a major "meltdown" (school term for Hissy Fit / temper tanty) while at the school swimming lessons and assaulted 3 teachers. He's only in grade 2! I'm not sure what we are going to do with him - most of the time he is a very loving, compassionate and compliant boy, but every now and then, BOOM! something sets him off and he goes ballistic. We are taking him to the peadiatrician on Tuesday avo, and boy, do I hope we can get some decent help. I don't really want to medicate him, but he certainly needs help.

Anyway.... enough with the crappy stuff.... The good news is that I finished the pink/burgandy bag! Again, it has turned out way bigger than I expected. I really should start knitting these things a bit smaller I think. I was going to include a photo, but my digital camera need the batteries recharged before I download the photos, so I will add them tomorrow. I will also try to take a photo of the baby jumper I am working on - but I don't know how well I will be able to photograph the cable detail. We'll see.....

not much else to natter on about tonight. Don't want to be one of those really negative blogs, where the only time the author can write is when they've got a gripe. I like mine to be happy and positive most of the time with only the occasional bitch.... so as I am unfortunatly not in the chirpiest of moods, I'll say see ya.

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Crap week, but done some knitting.

It's been a week since I last wrote. That is because I have been really sick (again!) with a upper chest and throat and nose thing - absolutely horrible. I guess while my immune system is down, other bugs go "Yeay, lets get her!". I'm slowly getting better though. I need to be well by Tuesday, as I am hoping to see my friend Naomi, and then on Wednesday I am supposed to be working at the Craft Show at the Convention Centre. Once again, please all send me white healing light!

Anyway... I have been doing a bit of knitting. I am still working on my pink/burgundy bag and I have done a little more on the cute Aran baby jumper. The bag has now got a different motif on it to the one I was going to do. Only because I still couldn't find the pattern (have found it since - typical) and I just felt like being creative and making up my own as I went along. Seems to be working out and at this stage is looking quite good. Don't know how well the new pattern will go during the felting process, but couldn't be bothered doing a swatch, so here's crossing fingers!! Will download some photos of both when I have done a little more.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Market Day

Today I skipped spinners (naughty me) and went to the Northey Street City Farm Markets with Joey and Yolanda. Unfortunatley we got there a little late for the markets and most good stuff had been sold and most of the stall holders were packing up. We did, however, go into the City Farm nursery and I bought some plants: Eggplant, Calendula, Dandelion and a grape vine. Hopefully they will do alright, I just need to remember to water them - a bit of a bugger when we are on water restrictions. I planted the Calendula, Dandelion and Grape vine this afternoon. The Eggplants are still seedlings and will need to be put into a pot before put in the ground.

My Dad has been encouraging me to go to the city farm for ages, so Dad, I finally went! And yes it is really good and I plan to go back. For those of you who live in the brisbane area and have never heard of this very cool place, check out their website:

www.northeystreetcityfarm.org.au/

(I tried doing it as a link like in previous posts, but it doesn't want to work - don't know why)

Not much has been happening on the craft front. I did go to some cool craft places in SA (All Seasons Comfort and The Alpaca shop, - both at Hahndorf - are the best!) and although I bought a lot of stuff, I didn't actually do much while I was on holiday. Too busy seeing the sights! I was planning to finish my pink/burgundy bag, but silly me forgot to take my motif pattern down, so I didn't touch the bag. I did start (and frog, and start and frog and finally started again) on a very cute jumper that I found a pattern for, for a child. It's a great Aran kind of knit and to be honest I just couldn't go past the baby on the front cover!! One of those absolutley gorgeous kids that look great in anything and makes you very clucky. The jumper is great too, and if it even looks half as good on my nephew Angus as it does on the kid on the front, I'll be happy.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Back in Brizzy

Well, we're home again. We flew in at about 10:45 last night, so I'm pretty beat today.
We had a fantastic holiday, and I promise I will download some photos once I have them put onto a cd. (we didn't take the digital camera - so have to get film processed.) Some of the things we did on our holiday to South Aust:
# Adelaide Zoo
# The Museum
# The Buffallo Ship Restaraunt (the original HMS Buffallo that brought Capt Hindmarsh & Settlers to SA - now converted into a restauraunt and museum.)
# The Barossa Valley - Penfolds, Yulumba, Grant Burge Wineries
# Angus Park Dried fruit factory
# Puzzle Park
# The Big Rocking Horse
# Hahndorf
# The Trams
# Central Markets
# Walk all round town (Rundell Mall, etc)
# Glenelg (great lolly shops!!)
# Port Adelaide (the markets, the maritime museum, a dolphin cruise)
And more!

Great Trip - THANKS BARNEY!!! YOU ARE WONDERFULL!!!!!!!!!