Thursday, March 21, 2013

knitting, reading, making, listening....




When I went to the craft fair recently with my craft group, I bought some decopatch materials. I'd been wanting to try it for a long time.  There was a workshop at the fair, so a couple of friends and I had a go. I made a heart that is now hanging in our kitchen and bought a horseshoe for a friend's wedding, and a little elephant for myself.  I decorated them yesterday. The horseshoe still needs the addition of ribbon and a couple of flowers, I need to get strong glue. I really enjoyed it, it's quite easy and I think, ideal for small gifts. I have a few ideas for gifts and things I would like to make for our home.  

My friend managed to fix the baby blanket for me! She says it looks as though I randomly knitted about ten purl stitches in the middle of the garter stitch blanket, which created a kind of trough that was really noticeable. She used some of the yarn and a darning needle, and sewed over the bad bit to make it look the same as the rest of the blanket, very clever! So now I just need to get the lacy border sewn on and all the ends sewn in, and I can give the blanket to the new baby after all. I'm very pleased.

In other knitting news, as I said in my last post the wurm hat is now finished.  I am really pleased with it and the weather is still cold enough to get some wear out of it. I'm trying to knit a couple of squares  of my poncho most evenings and today I am going to try to get the baby blanket finished. I am also having another go at learning to crochet. Wish me luck with that, as I am the most crochet challenged person in the world. The same friend who fixed the blanket helped me with the crochet last night, and she is so patient, and I seem to understand what she is talking about, which helps! Watch this space.

I'm reading The Soldier's Wife by Joanna Trollope and finding it quite difficult to get into. I will give it a little bit longer before giving up. So far this year it seems books have to really grip me for me to have any patience with them whatsoever. I have three books for book group next week and I am partway through and struggling with all of them. I guess it's me.

This week I discovered that an Erasure concert I went to in 1990 is on YouTube, and spent a happy hour listening/singing along, and then watched the Erasure DVD that the Young Philosopher gave me for Christmas. I wold love to see them in concert again so I am following Andy Bell on twitter and keeping an eye on them. I can't imagine the Prof will want to go, but I think I might be able to talk my friend Lisa or my brother into it, they were both there the first time! I have some great photos of us dressed in Erasure t-shirts and baseball caps, on our way to the concert. One day I will have to dig them out and post them here.






Joining Ginny's Yarn Along and Dawn Suzette's Make and Listen Along

What are you knitting/reading/making/listening to?

10 comments:

  1. Your elephant is so cute! And your wurm hat looks fantastic! I actually never learned to crochet myself, but I guess it's never too late to learn--hope it's fun!

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  2. Love your hat - just the thing for these chilly March days, and thank you so much for letting me know that you enjoyed the lentil loaf recipe.

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  3. great hat! and the elephant turned out wonderful!

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  4. I love the elephant too. I kind of have a thing for them. My husband was just in Thailand so he brought me back some elephant-themed souvenirs. The hat looks very comfy and I love the scrunchiness of it.

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  5. how pretty your hat is, i love the winter white. and the ellie is beautiful, i love them so much too!

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  6. Well done with the hat, looks good on you and I Love the elephant and horseshoe, well done you!

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  7. You look great in your new hat! I could knit that pattern over and over again :)

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  8. Your hat looks so great.
    Reminiscing about your concert gave me some flashbacks. Fun!
    Thanks for sharing and linking up to the make and listen along!

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  9. congrats on fixing the blanket and well done on the hat - also best of luck with the crochet! I can't get my head around knitting but crochet just works for me!

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  10. That hat looks great! Wish I could knit, but any sort of needlework makes me cross-eyed and crabby! I better stick to cooking and reading so I can stay in a good mood!

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