Scratching the Knitting Itch

Hooray!

The darling darling Belinda (can’t possibly say darling too many times. She really is) arrives in only a matter of days for the Blendy Knits Socks launch on Sunday 8 August, at the New Dowse from 3 – 5pm.

I’ll be there with piles of yarn, coffee, cake, Belinda, books, yarn, needles, knitting, yarn, coffee, cake (you get the idea…)

After the great Tiramisu competition at the last Craft2.0, i’ve been mulling over making mascarpone from scratch.

At long last I had a go, and it went okay – not perfect (cooked it too long, methinks) but still pretty tasty on toast with honey.

Mmmm, yum!

hello! It’s been awhile!

I sound like a broken record but, goodness life is busy. Busy to the point of, well, something will have to give. I’m one of those people who simply can’t refuse a good project idea, and all it takes is one small suggestion from someone to get me excited and enthusiastic and start getting carried away. This is necessarily a bad thing, but it is something I need to rein in a little bit just so that each week doesn’t merge into another with no stop or sense of project completion.

In fact, just thinking of all the things on my plate simply exhausts me.

So how about a wee list of things that I have *finished* lately?

• the July yarn club – all gone off to lovely people 😀
• the yarn club pattern (although the pics aren’t behaving and so it hasn’t gone out yet. Damn technology)
• Lots of orders – the post office lady and I are great friends!
• tidying my bedroom (hey, it’s a big one!)

Ok so the list isn’t huge, but by the end of this week it’s going to be much longer. The week after that will be dedicated to some r&r before heading to New Plymouth for some knit graffiti action, and then Knit August Nights a couple weeks after that.
Right – back to knitting yet another secret project!

xx

Over at Never not Knitting, there are some super duper adorable baby pics that nearly made me pee my pants.

Cute overload.

Go have a look!

Jessicah of Spinning a Yarn totally blew me out of the water with her awesome swap…gorgeous fibre for me to finally have a play on my spinning wheel, tim tams, and hot chocolate – yum!
The printed fabric it’s all sitting on is from In My Backyard – you can find her on felt, it is the cutest wee fabric print i’ve seen in ages.

I also had a great time meeting people on Saturday on the Frank Kitts market. It was wonderful to have real conversations with lovely knitters and crafters. I splurged on more fibre to play with – I just need to schedule in a day soon to sit down with the wheel and have a go. There are a few spinners around that seem ready to be talked into doing a central wellington spinning group, so let’s see if there is time to squeeze that into the schedule too.

Now i’m off to bed with my knitting – i’ve got the lurgy. Today should be a dyeing day but getting better is slightly higher on the priority list…have a great day!

xx