Christmas Gifted Cloths

Here are the cloths I made as a Christmas Pressie, all made with trusty Peaches and Creme!

Yarn Gathering Launch Party

Saturday saw the long awaited Launch Party of Yarn Gathering. Yarn Gathering is my friend Jeanette's Yarn shop in Stone. It was a very exciting day and we all gathered to wish Jeanette every success in the new venture! There seemed to be a lot of interest from passers by as well!

The Cake needs a special mention here, it was really well done and very scrummy!

Here is the Lady Of The Moment - Jeanette - cutting the cake with help from her grand-daughter. Looking on is Donna and Helen, wonderful Mums!

Donna, Helen and Rachel Sally - aka The Mad One!

View of the shop, with assorted people with Linda aka 'oooooooooooooooh Linda I've dropped a stitch help!' Linda is brilliant at picking up stitches and putting right what you've done wrong!

Sylvia and Linda, with Bob ready to hand out the flyers to the public! Beleive me he did a very good job!

Yours Truly, trying to ignore all feelings of queasiness and related grots. I am sporting my Stolen Moments Shawl, which I have evetnually finished and just had to show it off!

So if you are every near Stone, call in to the Shop! I will sort out links to the shop, classes and meetings, so watch this space!

Good Luck to Jeanette and Yarn Gathering!!

Yarn Gathering

Yarn Gathering - my friend Jeanette's Yarn Shop - has opened today! I have spent afew hours up there today. Chattting, knitting, browsing patterns. I bought some Artists Palette in a lovely shades of green, to make a particular scarf - I'm not sure of the spelling ?Backtus?. I also got some Katia Astrokan to do 3 projects for Little Spud - a Christmas Blanket, a lamb and a waistcoat.

Yesterday I bought two Debbie Bliss Baby books and some Sirdar Tiny Tots yarn to make a hoodie waistcoat, that was cast on last night!

The Loopy Bag is nearly finished - just need to sew it up and attach the handles - should be completed in half an hour, easy...........

Putting the Sickness in to Morning Sickness

This morning I have put the sickness into Morning Sickness. Not so pleasant. It wasn't nausea, feeling green behind the gills, or a bit off colour. But proper Momma-to-be Chunder Puss!! And where did this delightful event happen? On the blooming M6 at around 06.30, luckily Junction 12 was in sight, as was the slip road, where it all happened!

It's Chris Evans's first day on the Breakfast Show and he wanted kids to ring in with something they did for the first time today....... I didn't think this was quite the thing he was looking for! Happy Days!

Little Spud

I am very proud to announce that HobbitKeeper and I are Expecting! Yes .......We are Pregnant! Little Spud is 9 weeks old, so will be putting in an appearance around 12th August.

We went for a scan on Wednesday. This was a Dating Scan as we were not sure of dates, but now we are! It was beautiful and emotional! We even saw Little Spud's heart beating. Wow!

I'll see if I can scan the Scan pitcure........

The First Snow

The first of the snow arrived yesterday afternoon, just a light covering which froze overnight. Despite lovely sunshine this morning, it's still here. Snow doesn't stay long here. The town is built on a marsh so in general we're not too high off the water table, so we do damp.

I've not taken any pix. I'm on slow motion at the moment. However my needles have been whirring and am half way through the last cloth that is going to be gifted. I really can't see presents being posted and delivered in time for Chrimbo. Can't be helped. Must get my chrimbo stocking done next, less than a week to go! YIKES! I do think the festive season will be a blur for me. Come January I shall be wondering what happened!

Also come the new year, I shall have to get a new car. Mine is getting soooo poorly and I need to spend loads on it. As the Nice Man At The Garage says that if I don't get a new car soon, I shall be working only to pay my garage bill. Sober thoughts. As long as she can keep going until I get a replacement, but shhhhh! don't tell her yet!

Round Up!

Okay, so I've been away a while! I shall make concerted efforts to keep updated!

As a round up -

The Chooks are doing fine - Radar and Sunday have started laying again, much to my delight!

I've renewed my membership of the Needle Club at Books,Yarn,More. Take a look their Needles are so unique and beautiful, also includes updates of the antics of the local deer!

I'm still knitting (no surprise there!) I did recently fall in to the Very Naughty Trap of Casting On and Not Casting Off Before I Start Casting On The Next Project...... Needless to say, I've done very little in the way of finished projects. hhhhmmmmph! But what I have finished, I forgot to take pictures of. Sounds like a lot, but at the moment all I can remember is a hat I did for a Swap - 'Urchin' using Rowan Chunky something or another, I shall have to reference that better for you, my head is, as HobbitKeeper said a day or two ago, is like Swiss Cheese. I can't argue with that!

I'm also part way knitting a present for someone, so I can't tell you any more about that, in case it spoils the surprise!

I've also done a Christmas Stocking for HobbitKeeper, which is hanging on the mantlepiece in the back room. It's all in black, surprisingly. I'm a bout a quater way through doing one for me in two tones of purple and will have a fluffy bit on top. Christmas is ooooo about a week away, so need to seriously get them needles whirring otherwise I have been threatened by HK that he will take his stocking down if mine is not ready.......

I have put a list of my WIP's on the right hand side.... This is the total list of what I can remember.... I've not gone into the deeper recesses of my knitting room , which by the way is in an awful state at the moment, shameful! Hopefully it will kick start me in to casting off with the same enthusiasm that I cast on with......

Big Wave to Ann-in-America, who is actually in Cumbria at the moment!