Archive for April, 2008

Loopy

What could this be? Let's zoom out a bit…

"Grrr… I'm a washcloth hear me ROAR!" Hahaha, okay, okay, that was bad.
Well the pattern is the Aslan-inspired washcloth Grrr from Knitty. I used probably about two thirds of a ball of Sugar 'n Cream Ombres. I had wanted to make this washcloth with the yarn held [...]

Pointy sticks

Baking

Following Sadieandlance's advice I stepped away from the computer for a few minutes this afternoon and whipped this up. Yummy! Recipe is here.

New old books

The uni near our home holds a huge second-hand book fair every year in April, so Annette and I braved the rain to check it out yesterday. Not much luck in the Crafts and Knitting section unfortunately, but found lots of books for Annette in the childrens section, mostly for 50 cents each.
I just [...]

Some colours on a grey day

Back in June last year when I went to the Sydney Craft Fair, I bought two bags of mill ends from Kaalund Yarns. The bags contained various little mill end balls of Kaalund's yarn ranges, from laceweights to some chunky "thick and thins". I haven't done anything to most of them yet, but I thought [...]

Much better!

Tangled Yoke has been growing quite fast. (Amazing what being at home sick for almost a week can do! I'm feeling much better now, thankfully. Annette is back at preschool too this week, and things are starting to feel normal again around here. Thanks again for all the get well wishes!) I've finished the body [...]

Consuming copious amounts of this

Thank you so much for the get well wishes in the last post. The germs are still here unfortunately, I can't wait to kick them out!

Tweedy

Eeek, I'm very behind on my 30 day photo challenge. That virus that's been going around has kindly visited our home and has taken to going from one family member to another. It's overstaying its welcome, if you ask me! (Not that it was welcome in the first place!) It's kind of zapped my photo-taking [...]