This is the second garment I entered at the Wool Show. I’ve called it Baby Lottie because, well, I am a desert of ideas right now. It does kind of capture the scandawegian look I was going for though. There is a lot of geekery that follows so if you don’t knit or spin, just […]
Month: July 2013
This is the first of my show entries I would like to share with you. This one is especially dear to me. The streaks of paint and toothpaste already adorning it, tell me my Dear Girl loves it too. The idea for this little red dress formed all the way back in March. I was […]
I was just happy to have slayed that dragon, I did not know it was sitting on treasure! But I guess dragons just love a good hoard. Here is mine. Two firsts and a second! I had to check the name card four times just to be sure, but then they gave me these to […]
You know I like quests. I’ve been on the British Yarn Quest and the Trouser Quest, but I didn’t even know I was on this particular quest till I finished it. I have submitted something to the Australian Sheep and Wool Show! Yay, oh yah, oh yodel, yodel yay! When my dear boy was about […]
In between the grocery shopping and kinder pickup, I managed to catch the penultimate day of Artisan Book’s 13th Annual Beanie Exhibition. Even though many of the beanies had already been sold and gone off to new homes by the time of my visit, it was still fabulous. You can see images from previous exhibitions […]
Big heavy tub of blocks. Very little mama. Small Boy with good ideas. He took the castors off his tool box. We cut some thick ply to the size of the block tub. Screwed in the castors. Screwed the tub to the trolley. Boy can push trolley back to his room.
Ah…school holidays, time to rip plaster off the kids’ walls, have a wee family holiday and do a bit of knitting of course. This is central Victoria…Clunes and Maryborough. This is the deep of winter. Looks pretty sweet doesn’t it?
Socks for the Hill Dweller are done and what a pleasure they have been. They started with a Crazy Zauberball. Doesn’t that sound exciting? It is from Germany (which breaks my rule of Australian only yarn when in Australia but I am having concerns about the ecological soundness of this rule which I will talk […]
