Now that's better...

and immediately started on a miniature version for baby boy with the leftover yarn...oh no, it's too SMALL!! Do newborns have heads the size of grapefruits? I think they do...so this one is destined for a friends new baby due in 4 weeks! It will still be cold in Melbourne then...
Having loads of time wasting fun perusing the wonderful world of Ravelry. God it is the best website in the world!
knitting

FROGGED!

The Christmas Tree Hat in the divine Evoke Banksia organic wool came off the needles last night at 12.30! Not a time I would usually knit until, with me clocking up an enormous sleep debt right now with Chicken 3! Yet, I had to finish...I have been getting a funny feeling that this hat was looking rather roomy...but you never can tell, I kept telling myself!
Well...it turned out so beautifully...HAD my daughter been a giantess...
We toyed with the idea of a hot wash to make it all better...I couldn't risk it! FROGGED! back into a lovely little ball of wool: and I will start again.
It was always going to be a risk, knitting on 4mm instead of 3.25mm, to up the size from 4-6 to size 10!!
This time I'll try knitting it up as if for a 2 year old, and see how it looks!

The Imagination

My two chickens keep astounding me with the extent of their imaginative play! At ages seven and ten, when many children are absorbed in popular culture, computers and television, they are still making wondrous play/art sculturesque play in the backyard for literally hours:
Ingredients: One mound of dirt which has been left neglected on the concrete for months and which has since sprouted itself a no dig garden, some beeswax and some twigs!
Voila!

simplicity

Sometimes a short winter's play on the beach is all you need...

cardigan deprivation

Bless his little boots! He's 5 months old!


Stumbled...as you do...upon this cardigan from this amazing pattern maker. I think I am suffering from (new and exciting) cardigan deprivation. This cardi looks do-able for me, maybe...
cardigan, knitting

Bunny Scarf!

One bow tie scarf down, another to go. I am planning a moss stitch variation for myself, without the bow! Hmmm, I need luck.

The "knitting is better than nothing" post

The only good thing about a cold,grey, damp day full of construction noise from the street is that you can always put on Kate Rusby and knit!
After choosing three balls of wool, (we all chose blue Sublime!!) I started on the angora Bow Tie scarf for Ivy!! This yarn is so so so so soft and the pattern so nifty and deceivingly simple.




and good bye lovely little furry friend, old grandfather Snowy Grey August 2007- May 2010- sniff sniff