"Every night, just when the dark was softest and sleep was deepest, there came a loud noise from the end of the great room. It came from the place where the loom and spindle stood, where by day the grandmother spun and the mother wove."

from "The Spindle Imp" by Alida Sims Malkus

Monday 18 May 2009

So what now?

A hat of course.....a Cabled Rangoli hat knitted from some of the lovely swap yarn that Amandack sent me!


And the Posty delivered these to me a day or so ago......a new book full of lovely knitting techniques and a set of Fine Inwood Smith Cotton Hand Carders (170ppsi). Yum......inspiration for more yarny, fibrey goodness.


I have a number of goodies on order so am expecting lots more lovely things delivered by the Posty......LONG LIVE THE POSTY! Yay! giggle


Seriously Socks!

So my fibrey goodness; my yarny yumminess, over Easter, consisted of knitting socks! Just a basic sock pattern. Warm and soft for cold wintery days.



And then there were these. Knitted from the hand dyed leftover yarn from an earlier hand woven scarf project. I liked the scarf so much I thought it'd be fun to knit some matching socks...well sort of matching socks!



To wear with my Witchy boots! giggle



Thursday 14 May 2009

Marvellous Things!

And when I got home from the beach house I found this waiting for me. My One-Stitch-at-a-Time swap package from the wonderful Amandack in South Dakota had arrived.

Thank you Amanda! huge grin


It is full of Marvellous Things!
These are just some of the lovely things she sent me.








Wednesday 13 May 2009

This was Easter

Have tried several times to get this post up but it seems I always choose a time when the blogger people are doing maintenance and I have problems with getting the pictures to display and things to "save".....so.......174th time lucky!

Okay.....so this was Easter!
Chocolaty Yumminess! Um.....yes that is a Christmas tree, what can I say, so I wasn't well over Christmas. All Christmas decorations have now been packed up and put away!


Um....I also blew up the stove over Christmas.....so we had to get a new one. It worked out really well though, this little beauty was on special in Cowes....hehehe.......cheap delivery. Got to be better than buying it from the closest, larger, regional township which was nearly an hour's drive away. I have banned my father from using the stove, .....hmmmmm.........he's really good at burning the living daylights out of food and leaving everything greasy. He's happy to have delish meals provided for him! giggle Spoilt father!

We built the house in the early 1970s and its still decorated in its original 70s style so I felt it was important to get a replacement cooker that fitted in with the style of the home......RETRO! Wooo Hooooo, get an eyeful of that orange floral wallpaper in the kitchen...and my goodness you should see the weird plastic light fittings! All we need are a couple of Lava lamps!

The stove cooks wonderfully; does much better biccies than the 35 year old disaster that I blew up! Maybe blowing up the old one was a blessing.

Phillip Island trips are the only time my Emma Jennyanydots gets to sit in the sun......she's an indoor only cat and at home we have very limited sun sitting spots in the house. At Phillip Island she pretty much sets herself up permanently in the window.

She really does like her holidays at the beach!