I was making great headway yesterday with my SP's outfit until I got out the tape measure. Turns out I'd overshot myself by 4"so am having to unpick row by row :( Above is a picture of the yarn knitted up and although its not my colour palette I am enjoying the outcome.
23 February 2009
Ooops.....I spoke too soon
I was making great headway yesterday with my SP's outfit until I got out the tape measure. Turns out I'd overshot myself by 4"so am having to unpick row by row :( Above is a picture of the yarn knitted up and although its not my colour palette I am enjoying the outcome.
22 February 2009
Stash - gone!
I've now got all bar my latest yarn present from my SP listed on Ravelry stash page. I've also decided that that oddments I have I am going to get rid of and have filled a black bin bag.
I also had a day of more or less nothing but knitting and made headway on my SP's cardigan. Its Debbie Bliss Soho and uses 4.5 / 5.5mm needles so for me its quite chunky but it is a pleasant knit. I'm hoping that by this time next week I'll have it finished. What do you reckon?
I also had a day of more or less nothing but knitting and made headway on my SP's cardigan. Its Debbie Bliss Soho and uses 4.5 / 5.5mm needles so for me its quite chunky but it is a pleasant knit. I'm hoping that by this time next week I'll have it finished. What do you reckon?
13 February 2009
Secret Pal Parcel 2
I've not been at work this week and I was disappointed to get an e-mail from SP to say that they'd sent me a parcel to my work address. Fortunately someone at work lives locally and agreed to drop it off for me :)
I was greeted by this lovely stamp on the outside :)
Which hid these lovely wrapped bundles:
I forgot to photograph some of them before I took the wrapping paper off :( The first of which contained this coffee from Peru. I've not started on it yet as I've been on a bit of a chocolate binge
Which the little helping on the right hand side added to :) The rats are also enjoying the middle of the three and the left is sat in my cupboard waiting to be munched.
Here are three parcels though that I did take pictures of with them wrapped
Here are the unwrapped contents:
Some closer pictures:
The yarny yummyness here is 96% BFL from the Mulberry Dyer and I'm quite happy wearing it on my hands without it seeing the needles!
The one on the left is some really dark chocolate with mint flavouring. I don't eat really dark chocolate very often as its one I like to save for a treat and savour so it will be around for a while ;-) I'm hoping that I'm correct in saying the purple are stitch markers?
And the very creature friendly envelope and card that came with my parcel. I have to say that my second parcel from SP has hit the nail on the head just right again :)
I was greeted by this lovely stamp on the outside :)
Which hid these lovely wrapped bundles:
I forgot to photograph some of them before I took the wrapping paper off :( The first of which contained this coffee from Peru. I've not started on it yet as I've been on a bit of a chocolate binge
Which the little helping on the right hand side added to :) The rats are also enjoying the middle of the three and the left is sat in my cupboard waiting to be munched.
Here are three parcels though that I did take pictures of with them wrapped
Here are the unwrapped contents:
Some closer pictures:
The yarny yummyness here is 96% BFL from the Mulberry Dyer and I'm quite happy wearing it on my hands without it seeing the needles!
The one on the left is some really dark chocolate with mint flavouring. I don't eat really dark chocolate very often as its one I like to save for a treat and savour so it will be around for a while ;-) I'm hoping that I'm correct in saying the purple are stitch markers?
And the very creature friendly envelope and card that came with my parcel. I have to say that my second parcel from SP has hit the nail on the head just right again :)
08 February 2009
Brighton
Well no pictures on this post as I forgot to take some. I was intending on taking some of the pier this time but it didn't happen.
With all of the snow that we've had I was anticipating problems getting down to Brighton. The snow didn't pose me any problems although the trains did. Throughout the day I was checking on British Rail website on live departure board to keep an eye on my train as I had fears it would be cancelled. I left work 30 minutes before the train was due to depart and it still showed as running. I get to the train station 20 minutes later and lo and behold its on the board as cancelled. I go into the ticket office as I was pre-booked onto the train on a cheap ticket to see what my options are and discuss the matter. The lady behind the counter proceeds to tell me that it was a pre-planned cancellation and had been showing on the line's website for several days. I point out that this was not the case on the BR website. Fortunately I was able to get on the next train. I leave the ticket office and spot that it was already in so very promptly got on and found myself an unreserved seat as I had visions of an overcrowded train and having to stand the entire 2 1/2 hours to London!
The weather forecasts that were made also made it sound like I would have problems getting home. I did have a slight panic when I got on the train at London as ETA was 20 minutes after it was scheduled to arrive and 10 minutes after my last train was due to leave. We got back to Leeds on time and I caught my connection fortunately as it was the last train of the night.
The show at Brighton itself seemed to be busy although not as busy as it would have done if the weather had not interfered and I came back home without having made any purchases of yarn. That said I did purchase some truffles from Linden Lady which erm didn't make it out of Brighton ;-)
With all of the snow that we've had I was anticipating problems getting down to Brighton. The snow didn't pose me any problems although the trains did. Throughout the day I was checking on British Rail website on live departure board to keep an eye on my train as I had fears it would be cancelled. I left work 30 minutes before the train was due to depart and it still showed as running. I get to the train station 20 minutes later and lo and behold its on the board as cancelled. I go into the ticket office as I was pre-booked onto the train on a cheap ticket to see what my options are and discuss the matter. The lady behind the counter proceeds to tell me that it was a pre-planned cancellation and had been showing on the line's website for several days. I point out that this was not the case on the BR website. Fortunately I was able to get on the next train. I leave the ticket office and spot that it was already in so very promptly got on and found myself an unreserved seat as I had visions of an overcrowded train and having to stand the entire 2 1/2 hours to London!
The weather forecasts that were made also made it sound like I would have problems getting home. I did have a slight panic when I got on the train at London as ETA was 20 minutes after it was scheduled to arrive and 10 minutes after my last train was due to leave. We got back to Leeds on time and I caught my connection fortunately as it was the last train of the night.
The show at Brighton itself seemed to be busy although not as busy as it would have done if the weather had not interfered and I came back home without having made any purchases of yarn. That said I did purchase some truffles from Linden Lady which erm didn't make it out of Brighton ;-)
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