My Pink Half of the Drain Pipe

Cheerio!

I am a rubbish blogger, I am sending myself of to blogcamp to try and rectify this. I may be a while.

I Lied

I have obviously not posted today as I promised and I have no time to now. I have managed to find five minutes to explain why as I feel guilty as hell.

Tonight I am off to my local watering hole to meet my friend Andrew's new lodger. He arrived on Wednesday and so far has proven himself to be exceptionally weird. In a bid to introduce Patrick (the lodger) and give Andrew a break from entertaining him single handedly we are to meet for some drinks them maybe back here for some late night chat.

I fear he (Patrick) from what I have heard may turn out to be as mad as a hatter which will surely cause huge problems for poor Andrew.

Tomorrow will be the day of the update I promise!

Busy Bee

Firstly I wish to thank my secret friend Fluffy who sent me a set of wonderful Knitting Mystery books on Monday, they are hilariously funny, maybe unintentionally.

You see I am a lazy, lazy blogger and after being so busy all week it is now Friday and I want to relax with too much red wine and the new copy of vogue knitting. Tomorrow though I promise we will have, blocking update, cardi update, SP8 update and fantastic new textile magazine update.

Cheerio!

With These Gloves I Thee Block

I have a confession, I do not block, I am not even sure about the details of blocking, I do know that I am a bad knitter for not blocking though, so can I be forgiven or does that make it worse?

Last week while hanging about for the yarn to arrive for my current projects I knitted up some quick fingerless gloves with some beautiful soft cashmere plum and it is with these gloves I thee block. Yes I am going to take the leap I know I should have done at the start. They are blocking as we speak and I will update on the results and my new convertion on Friday. If you too are one of the great unblocked here is the knitty article I used for instructions.

To the yarn I was hanging around for, here is my progress on the Debbie Bliss Shawl Collar Cardi

After eagerly waiting a week it arrived I started straight away and knitted up the front in two days only to realize that in all my enthusiasm it was riddled with mistakes and had to frog it all. I am yet to pick myself off the floor and restart it.

In brighter news, these beauties arrived today!

The Denyse Schmidt Quilts will be my first foray into quilting and I am very excited, I plan to make a quilted muff first, yes you heard it here first there is such a thing as a quilted muff!
It makes me glad I live in the West of Scotland.
The other book Holiday Knits is fuel to my Christmas mania fire. This will be my first Christmas as a knitter and I plan to go wild. I tend to invoke Martha Stewart around this time and December is to be filled with home baking, decoration making, egg nog and your all invited!

Yesterday I was complaining in an email that I haven't been reading much so today I picked up this book and finished it. Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy. It has been floating about the media for a while so I picked it up at the library and it was a surprisingly pleasing read unfortunately the issues discussed are all to easily identified in society and in myself but it is gracious enough not to persecute but to open the doors for change and discussion. Go on try it.

I also stumbled upon a thought today.........are the current engineering of bras making women's breasts look surgically enhanced? I don't mean size but shape. Those t-shirt bras produce a rock hard, under the chin cleavage, what do you think? I know that the shape of my breasts in a bra isn't even inspired by my natural shape. hell everyone is doing!

Last but not least I managed to sneak in a ball of sock yarn for my first pair of Jaywalkers, hell everyone is doing!

Progress

Progress is maybe the wrong word for this post. Yes I have been working on two larger projects but all work has been rained off due to running out of yarn on BOTH of them!

I have set myself a challenge to try and produce most of an autumn wardrobe for myself by both sewing and knitting. So far it is going slow but I am sure I work better under pressure!?! and I mean autumn when? could easily have it done by autumn 2008.

Here to the right is the progress I have made on the alpaca cardi from Knitting, nearly two sleeves and a hell of a lot to go, though I am enjoying it immensely, easy cabling allows both mindless knitting but beats boredom from you door at the same time.

To the left we have my stab at Debbie Bliss's So Soft Shawl Collar Jacket, using cashmerion astrakham, which allow though a daunting yarn at first is super soft and produces a wonderful textured look alas the stitching is very simple to really display the yarn which does lend to autopilot knitting.

The view in this picture is off the back as I tend to start with the sleeves then back of a garment to allow me to get used to both the yarn and the instructions so that when I get to the front it is stitch perfect.

As part of the autumn project I am going to build outfits around these cardi's, so I was thinking a red puffed sleeved top and wide 50's skirt to go with the blue and a head to toe black ensemble for the alpaca.

Out with all this knitting I have been a very busy indeed, with Billy's birthday and weekends away. This weekend it is all about being quiet in the house.

Argh! I just read though this post and not only am I have a quiet weekend but I am incredibly boring and write as such. I am away for a lobotomy, cheerio!

Those who have the potential for great cuteness..........

.............................also hold within them the potential for sneaky plant eating badness!!!

Dam Blogger!!!

Sorry but for the past two days I have been trying to post and I keep losing it!!! *feverish fist shaking*

Tomorrow I will concur the mighty blogger!!!

Gone Fishing

The very next person to read this blog will be my 1000th visitor!! Can you believe it four months in and 1000 visitors. To celebrate this I am going to skive off and post some awful black and white photos of myself and Billy!!!