Shawl progress
Well, it’s the last day of the olympics and it’s not finished – gutted! Oh well, I’m still going on with it, it goes fine until I hit one of the pattern rows – they’re all K2tog and yarn overs and I...
View ArticleMade loads of progress!
Sometimes I love being an insomniac – I got loads done on that shawl since posting on Sunday morning…I was going to post last night, but I’d over done it and given myself the mother of all migraines –...
View ArticleTick, Tick, Tick – will I have enough wool??
I didn’t get as much done last night as Tuesday nights are cinema-and-Tesco’s night with mum. We went to see the new Mummy film, compared to the others it was bloody rubbish! My main worry now is that...
View ArticleNearly there!
I took my shawl to show the others at the knitting group last night — it’s been such hard work, I guess I just wanted reassurance from experienced knitters that it’s all going ok! Daft, eh!? I just...
View ArticleIt’s finished!
I didn’t go to sleep last night and I’ve managed to get it finished! Hooray!!!
View ArticleHospital
My second son, Matt, has a heart defect. He has a VSD (Ventrical Septal Defect – a hole in other words) and aortic regurgitation. The VSD acted like a vacuum and sucked, the aorta valve was pulled...
View ArticleKnitting Olympics/Ravelympics
The Winter Olympic games started on Friday 12th February. In the knitting/crochet/spinning community; this means 12 days of frantic crafting. The idea is to challenge yourself. During last years...
View ArticleA painful few days & A New Beginning
On Thursday I came down with a migraine. It was quite a bad one and I, stupidly, ate dinner after taking a pain killer. Dinner added nausea and a general feeling of bleurgh to the whole migraine...
View ArticleBit of a catch up
Hmmmm things happen and I keep forgetting to add them in – you know how it goes! So I may come back and edit this post as I think of things (which, as I stated before; I hate other people doing LOL),...
View ArticleA bit of what I’ve been doing lately
Right, so where are we….. I guess the first thing is; the eggs didn’t survive – I don’t know whether they were duds to start with, or whether my handling killed them. But they all shrivelled up within...
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