Yolk

Milo Vest in Pear Tree Yolk. I love love love this colour, and the cabling is stirring my recently brushed off Celtic heart...

This winter has been a true Melbourne winter, where one wears overcoats and kidney warmers, and there is drizzle and rain, and actual puddles to jump in quite often!
Sitting in the sun today with baby boy and feeling actually warm was sooo delicious.
It really made me appreciate having four seasons just to savour the contrasts.

Earthy Rainbow on my Back

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