About 2 months ago I was checking out the Australian Cosmopolitan Bride website to find out when their new issue was coming out (turns out I had to wait 2 months) and they were doing a marketing poll to find out what brides were looking for these days, as an incentive they would pick one person to win some nice Benefit brand Glamazon bronzer.
Yesterday I got a ‘we missed you!’ leaflet telling me to pick up a parcel. Turns out I won the opinion poll!! It made my day.
I think I have become a little obsessed with tweed type yarn. This came with the addition of some Jo Sharp Silkroad DK Tweed, one ball in a beautiful icy blue and one in a wonderful pinky raspberry. I already have 4 balls of light blue Grignasco Tango and 4 balls of the same in red, and of course the cobblestone jumper for The A that is also a silk/wool tweed.
The wonderful thing about these yarns is how soft they are, not the typical scratchy tweed of yesteryear. Now made up of wool, silk, cashmere and alpaca tweed is something that I can now wear with joy (I hate scratchy things near my skin)
I have no clue what to knit with these yarns but the Jo Sharp will probably become a cowl, wristlets or beret/hat.
(Aren’t the photos great? I used natural light near the couch and backed the yarn with some white paper, I love how well the colour comes out!)
I love my E ring and I try and take good care of it. I take it off when showering, doing the washing up and while doing anything that might damage it.
Which is why I was more than a little peeved off when I noticed that on the bottom of it I could see the crack from the re-sizing and that on the inside bottom of it I could see something that looked suspiciously like plastic. The ring is now back at the jewelers where they tried to tell The A that white gold wears off really quickly and that the seller has to re-coat her rings every 3 months (WHAT?!) In the mean time I’m wearing a ring that I inherited with the jewelry box I got from my mother, it feels funny not to wear anything on my finger now!
I’ve not been able to blog much lately as I started a job last Friday. It’s a crafty one so even though I am just stacking shelves in preparation of their stock take I get to ohh and ahh over things I have never seen before and get ideas for crafty projects.
Apparently I am really good at ‘relaying’, I have no idea what that specifically means but I think it’s the art of grouping things for displays and making it look good. There’s something to put on ye olde CV!
Freo Knitting is on this Saturday (as it is every sat) so come on down if you are in the area.
Have been away from here for a while. Mostly due to controlling of internet consumption and having other things to do.
Yesterday was my birthday and I took a trip to Calico and Ivy to spend a gift voucher I got from The A’s parents. It’s a substantial haul and as The A said, it should keep me busy for a while! I still have some money left on it for another day.
I got three skeins of Cascade 220 as I have been wanting to do Stephanie Japel’s Two Tone Shrug from Fitted Knits. The blue hasn’t come out very well (phone picture) It’s a lot darker IRL and closer to turquoise.
I also acquired a beautiful skein of mustard coloured Jitterbug sock yarn, 4 balls of Grignasco Tango in a lovely powder blue tweed, and three tootsie rolls of fabric. One of which has bees on it (a bit obsessed with bees at the moment, I’m reading ‘The Hive’ and also ‘Robbing the bees’)
I have also been busy on the wedding front. We paid the deposit on the Restaurant just as we received the confirmation letter from the park. We couldn’t get the Beedawong meeting place as it’s in an area of the park that gets used for concerts between November and April. Instead we booked a Rotunda that overlooks the city and river but with the option of transferring the booking to the Beedawong meeting place if it isn’t being used (fingers crossed!)
On the sewing front it’s all go! I made several project bags as well as a GPS bag for The A, a zippered bag for my handbag that holds lip balms and hair clips, and a sad looking bear who needs me to make some shorts out of some Hawaiian fabric I have.
On Thursday I popped into ‘The Reject Store’ as I got a catalogue dumped into the mailbox and saw a $25 sewing machine on the back page. I managed to buy the last one, and after a few teething problems it’s going great guns (literally, it sounds like a machine gun!)
I had a go at a few drawstring bags before cutting the pieces for a quilt I’ve had in mind for a while. When you can’t sleep very well and the Da Vinci Code is on the TV you might as well spend the time cutting up strips of white fabric! I plan on using a really soft white flannelette fabric from Spotlight on the back and red thread to quilt along the white. It will also have a white border.
There’s also a little progress on the granny square blanket.
They had restocked the shelves at Spotlight and I got two balls of the yellow and two of the white which I got 4 squares out of. Hmmm ‘High Society’ is on, gotta go!
