We went away to Kaikoura last weekend. This weekend were just staying home - both of us worked Saturday - but well get done the coast again this coming holiday weekend too. I cant say this next trip ...
This is a local NZ spun yarn, 50% merino and 50% silk, hand dyed up on the North Island and on offer in the shop I work in. It was a birthday gift from Sophie last year and Im loving...
I have three shawls on the needles presently. Shawl One: The Percy Shawl youve seen already, and hopefully will see again when I have time to work on the every row has lace instructions Chart B. Ive ...
We got in a largish order of Knitsch 100% Merino Sock in the shop the other day. Almost 60 skeins of bright goodness. Only two were self-striping variegated colour ways. Im not sure how that happened...
Its been a full on week here in Nelson. Autumn has been edging into winter with a sharp, crisp turn in the air. The leaves have all begun to turn and fall and they delight me as much as ever....
Our first full on day of touring around Rotorua we did Wai-o-Tapu and Waimangu Thermal Park. Lots of steaming, smelly pools of HOT water. Lots of amazing colours. Lots of walking, which everyone fore...
We were in Rotorua for Auckland Anniversary, a holiday Monday (which also was Nelson Anniversary too). So there wasnt a lot open. Not that it mattered - the Rotorua Mueseum was open and I wanted ever...
Alex and I flew up early on a Saturday late in January to meet my parents in Rotorua. Since the parents were catching a bus up from Wellington we had the better part of a day to ourselves to get...
So, I realize Ive been horribly slack showing you images from our weekends away. Or, you know, our holiday with my parents. My bad. Shuffling through heaps of photos just hasnt been high on my priori...
Looks alright, doesnt it? Yeah, well, it didnt wear quite right. So Ive taken the buttons off and will give them a second sewing on, a little higher and in towards one another more. The body of the c...
While Alex was helping paint a friends house I spent a lovely half day with Sophie and Maggie. When those two lovely lasses were picked up to go see The Sound of Music at the theatre I drove down the...
In my short knitting life I have bought many balls and skeins and hanks of yarn. Ive fallen into some pretty awesome indie dyers company/commerce along the way. Reading the About Us page over at Posh...
Thursday after work, after dinner, after a grocery and liquor store shop, four of us piled into the Smurf and, with another couple and their toddling son in the car behind us, set out for the West Co...
That is a body of a pullover, one of the two sleeves ready to be joined to the body, and the last bit of the caked yarn. Ive only got the raglan decreases with a couple more lace pattern repeats...
Daylight Savings has just gone into effect. Alex was none too happy with me bounding out of bed at 6:30sm. I blame the combination of Daylight Savings and the new black out curtain his nana sent us t...
Leaflets body was completed while we were in Kaikoura. It needs to be blocked before the ribbed front bands are put on. This meant that I had no easy, big, fat, quick working knitting for evenings. S...
I drove us to Kaikoura Friday night to meet up with all the family for a gathering the likes of which we wont manage until Alexs parents return from Mongolia later this year. While we didnt hit lots ...
Did you hear the story about a knitter who had volunteered to undertake a second year of cold sheep and decided that in addition to not buying yarn she would also not buy patterns? One day she made a...
I gave in last night and began the Leaflet Cardigan. It has several things going for it, despite even Alex pointing out I dont really jive on cardigan knitting. 1) Posh Elinor Aran wool. Yum! This is...
I finished the buttonhole band on the long languishing Tea Leaves Cardigan last Thursday night with my knitting circle during our first try of the Speights Ale House. Id mucked up on the Snapdragon T...
Please forgive my snarky side as she spews a little sales assistant grief in an effort to help you be better liked at your Local Yarn Shop (or, indeed, most stores). 1) Look at us As a retail salespe...
Ive got another free pattern up at The Rare Yarns Company website! These sweeties are knit flat and were created to help encourage knitting off of charts for the customers where I work. They take jus...
There is a patch of flowers by the raised bed I have my herbs in. Im not sure which of the previous tenants put these flowers there. We had purple irises earlier in the season. After they died away I...
I hosted an Intimo Lingerie party this past weekend. It was an opportunity for me to get some more nice bras that are of a quality not found in most NZ clothing retailers, as well as to bake and feed...
TADA! I wrote and knit this pattern up ages ago, but weve taken some time to get the new Rare Yarns website up and going before we started running the free pattern of the month. Itll be free until mi...
Because I know cool people, I will assume that those reading this have an idea what the image above is of. It belongs to Alex. He and a mate got three or so jukeboxes to fix up for a friends...
Since I only have one, I hope you like my one and only photo available to share today. Yesterday I realized that I had all these photos from the new year but hadnt posted them. That stupid thing that...
Thursday last we went to a little town outside of Nelson with some friends to see some very loved bands. If you are American, dont be surprised at not knowing the first two, Hello Sailor and Dragon, ...
Here is Alex slaving away at 12:30am Sunday January 1st 2012. Months ago I decided that the tradition I dearly needed to implement was cheesecake breakfast for New Years Day. We made the base earlier...
On Christmas Eve Alex and I had the family to our place for a bbq. When the bbq was delivered from his parents house we also received, for the afternoon, his cousin Scarlett - to give her parents tim...
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