I’m feeling like quite the lucky one today… Two gifts in two days! People who know me well will know I LOVE presents, both receiving and giving, it’s all good in my mind! Yesterday ...
My weekend flew past, I just could not believe how quickly it became Monday morning again, I felt as though I was in some strange time warp. Most of the time it rained and was grey and cold, but for ...
It is getting bloody cold here in New Zealand, even in the “Winterless North” where we live. I think it is called the Winterless North because it doesn’t snow up here, it is still c...
I found my “Soul Yarn” on the weekend at the Wonders of Wool market in Wellington… One beautiful ball of rainbow goodness is wonderful… But two is better! I’m back from ...
Aren’t Autumn trees just the most beautiful thing ever? In New Zealand, most of our native bush is evergreen, and we had a lot of Pine trees where I grew up, so the sight of an Autumn tree is s...
The lovely Evelyn at Project: Stash started a Knit-a-Long last week, which I couldn’t reisit joining. The pattern is the Wholehearted Shawl which I liked very much, and as all of the proceeds f...
Last July I went to a Spin In with my Mum. I remember buying a L.O.T of fibre… remember this mosaic? Yes, well that was about half of what I bought in total, it was a most excellent haul. If ...
Last weekend’s spinning goal was this gorgeous swirl of pastel happiness… It took about a week….. I’m not sure why it took so long, I think I’m coming out of that crazy ...
Next to our deck, there is a guava tree growing. It is not a big guava tree, but all Summer I watched with anticipation as these tiny little hard green balls got bigger and finally, after months, st...
Thanks to a looooooooooooooooooooong lovel y weekend, I’ve managed to get some projects finished. And photographed too. Isn’t four lovely days of nothing-to-do just the best? Yesterday ...
Life is changing in extraordinary ways in my little world. I wanted to pop in and do a blog post but to be quite honest with you, I have absolutely nothing to blog about. No knitting, no March sock...
A while ago now, I fell in love with a Little Peggy. I saw this Little Peggy sitting in a knitting shop and was immediately enamoured with her, just amazed at how CUTE she was and wanted one immedia...
Three gorgeous silver buttons, the finishing touches to my Tappan Zee which is currently in my airing cupboard, blocking. I love, love, LOVE it and can’t wait to wear it in a couple of days wh...
Beastie Number One: Monster for Bradley. Like most crafty people, I get a looooooooooooooot of requests from people to make them stuff. I always say no, unless the asker is Mum, KB or it is somethin...
Thank you for all of your lovely and kind Ripple Blanket comments, it was very special for me to read through them, I appreciate kind comments very much. I’m off the the rest of the week and al...
It has just started to cool down here in New Zealand, Autumn arrived four days ago, and my Ripple Blanket is complete! Just in time…. I started this project during the height of Summer and wor...
No matter how much you enjoy your job, when you work Monday to Friday from 8.30-5.00, Friday evening is an exciting time of the week. I’m celebrating with a delicious pizza, prepared by KBR...
February 2012 has been quite a nice month and KB and I are enjoying watching the sun set earlier each evening and further along the horizon. I’m loving the fact that it is getting chillier in ...
Despite being terribly excited about starting my February socks, they ended up being a bit of a struggle to complete. It turns out that I do not enjoy knitting socks in stripes, it’s all fine ...
My ripple blanket…. So close to the end now, maybe another eight stripes before I weave in the ends and start the border. XXXXX p.s Yay!
Slow yarn totally rocks my world. I’ve posted about it on various occasions, the concept of taking some undyed fluff, (I personally prefer nice, clean, carded wool rather than ‘in the gr...
The sky looks incredibly blue and wonderful in these pictures, but they were taken a few days ago. Today is grey and overcast and raining on and off, about 10 minutes ago it rained so hard I thought...
Last weekend it was not very sunny which was nice because the sun is very, very hot right now and it was lovely to have a break from it burning down on me. Those of you in the Northern Hemisphere wi...
I learned to spin in June last year, and on July 2nd 2011 I wrote this post about spinning the above spiral of loveliness into yarn. You might remember that post if you have been visiting Raymond an...
I know, I know, more blue… this is one skein of Days by the Bay, one of the gorgeous colourways from Knitsch…. Added to the odds and ends from my other Knitsch socks… can I call the...
Where on earth did January go? As this is my end of the month post, which means my Monthly Mosaic post, I realised there are still a lot of photos sitting in my January file which haven’t been...
It has been some months since I’ve had a chat with you about spinning yarn… I happen to know it has been this long because I remember vaguely, quite some time ago, telling you all about m...
Before we get started on Socktastic Business, I have to post some more Summer Happiness, ooooh my goodness we are right in the middle of Summer and it is amaaaaazing! Today is Saturday which meant an...
After the excited response to my GF brownie from a few posts ago (still not quite ready to share that one… it’s not quite perfected) I decided to bring a new element into Crochet with Ray...
A day trip to Waipu Cove, 40kms out of town…. Thank goodness we couldn’t find a car park at Waipu Beach and carried on around the bay to Langs Beach. Pure Summer Bliss. Same stunning go...
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