Autumn, yay!

Time for some serious, batten down the hatches, it's cooling down and we need to go out and kick up some leaves type knitting...

 

 knitting: one warm Milo vest for special one and only god daughter...

craft frenzy, or, what to do with odd socks

 The chickens and I have been overcome by creative urges over the last couple of days.

Sock dolls (thanks to the wonderful inspiration from this book ).

A commission for a robin.

Painting by Lady M.

and "potato bag doll".

It has been a joy using up all the cut up pieces of old clothes from the "rag bag".

oh, it's the school holidays...someone tell me homeschooling wouldn't work!

Power Knitting: the girl's gotta have it

I decided a week ago, my eldest girl child must have a new, cosy, hand knitted vest to wear to school camp. Thus began a week of power knitting, serious You Tube study and late night knitting festival.

The good news is, I got it done, and girl child got her vest! Complete with squirrel and acorn.

 

The pattern is "milo vest" from tikki,  and I used the most delicious yarn from Peace Fleece.

God I love that yarn!

small lounge room, friends, needles and fibre

is apparently all I require to feel my life is indeed rich and something to celebrate. As the temperature slowly drops, I find the pleasures of late night fibrework (knitting socks at the minute) a balm, a retreat, a joy, stimulating, satisfying. To share it with some lovely friends, all of whom on this particular night had never met before, yet behaved like comfy old friends with each other, was just the best. I have realised I have a secret drive to bring people together in creative endeavours. The singing group I started at the chicken's school, the knit nights...brings me the utmost satisfaction.

Anna's dollies...

Nina's hot water bottle cover for her sister

Swallowtail Anna's jumper for her sweet boy

{this moment}

favourite book

 

 

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

inspired by SouleMama 

Finished my Cardi!!

 

At last I have got my long awaited cardi off the needles. This is a design by Melissa LaBarre, called Garter Yoke Cardigan .

I have a feeling it's going to get a lot of wear!

A quietly growing obsession...

It began at playgroup, seven years ago.
I was handed some bamboo needles and some organic wool, and we knitted a scarf for our children.  The smell!! I remember being compelled to sniff my work all the time. I should have known then it would one day become something of an obsession.

For the past year I have tried to teach myself at least one new skill with every new project, learning to cable, shape, gather, knit in the round... I attempted a cardigan for myself, and my children, and next... socks and a shawl, for goodness sake! I obsess over which colour I should choose, and dream at nights, of choosing the perfect hand dyed skein! I must acknowledge the incredible online global community of knitters, Ravelry, in assisting my obsession no end!

This is how obsessed I am: I take more photos of my knitting and yarn than I do of my extraordinarily cute baby boy, or big girl offspring. I take my knitting everywhere, just in case I get even two minutes to knit! I rush to school pick up so I get time to knit before the bell goes, I knit instead of folding and putting away clothes,  even when said clothes prevent one from sitting on the lounge or seeing my bed. That's okay! I can knit on the floor! And I am so happily tired from late night knitting I don't notice the pile on the bed anyway!
Obsessed.

I am about to finish my cardigan and have today received the cutest little box full of wool for my next two very ambitious projects. Fluffy mail indeed, and I sniffed vigorously!