Catching up
Oooh – this feels odd, I’m in bed, writing this on the laptop, rather than on the “big computer” downstairs that I usually use.
Any road up, we’re back. We had a wonderful very-nearly-week with my parents, but it’s good to be home, although not quite so good to be back at work already, and so suffering from a migraine, and so in bed. (It’s not a bad one, in that it doesn’t hurt, and I can type and read fine, but I can’t really do talking to people right now – just as I find it impossible to read bedtime stories when I feel like this. I’ll bet a neurologist would be able to tell me which bits of my brain are suffering – I just know that it’s a nuisance.)
Anyway, there has been crafty stuff, so lets get on with all the pictures.
Exhibit A: The cushion for Ruth for Christmas:
– click on the image to see the reverse. The fabric on the front matches her curtains. (There is a moderately amusing story connected with these curtains, but this post is going to be way long enough already, and my brain doesn’t feel up to doing it justice. Maybe one day.) The reverse is … an old nappy (diaper). And she’s drawn on it already – clearly it wasn’t pink enough.
(Help, using this laptop is scary – it has buttons in different places – I’m going to press something catastrophic soon, I can tell… )
Exhibit B: Adam’s new mittens
Knitted with leftovers from my FIL’s socks – using Twilley’s Freedom Spirit – still my current yarny love. (Although you know me, I’m fickle, and there’s a competitor – see later.)
Exhibit C: New Trousers for Hamish
We gave Hamish to Adam the Christmas before Ruth was born, so 25 December was not only Christmas Day, but it was also Hamish’s 3rd birthday. Since he’s been trouserless for the last year or so, it was only right that he should have a gift too.
That completes the Christmassy craftiness (there was also a laundry bag for Tilly [Ruth’s dolly], who celebrated her first birthday on 25 December, but the only picture I have so far is hideously blurry.)
Since then I’ve been doing baby knitting. I do love doing baby knitting, and a large number of friends have been considerately fecund recently. So while staying with my parents I made:
Yarn: Wendy Rembrandt (now discontinued)
Pattern:Haiku from Knitty
Needles: 4mm
and I’m on the second sleeve of this:
– also Haiku, but this time using Katia’s Venus – a Spanish yarn I picked up on sale in Voirrey over the holiday. It’s gorgeous and snuggly and chunky, and wonderful to sniff and cuddle…
Now to the sad part of this post. There has been a disaster. (You’ll have to click on the links to see the horror – I realise that there may be knitters of a nervous disposition reading this, who knows – some may even be eating, and I’d hate to cause undue distress) – you remember these socks – you know, the ones that are going to bring me fame and fortune – well, now they look like this. For lovers of knitting horror look at the details here and here
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
The moral of the tale, gentle knitter, is not to be tempted by yarn that is soft and squishy and gentle on the foot if it is 100% wool. Hold out for that 20% nylon for extra strength.
But I promised a happy ending to this post, so see, look at the pretty yarn:
I entered Kristen’s 1000th post contest, and won them. Aren’t they gorgeous. Happy happy Anne 
This post is long enough (and that’s after I deleted the tale of the toys-we-forgot-to-take-to-Granny-and-Grandad’s – not to be recommended), so I shall stop now.
eleven comments:
hey! I always blog in bed late at night before bed time :)Sorry I missed you in England, I didn’t bring my computer :( I would have loved to have seen you, maybe next time because I still want to see the inside of the tower of london one day!!
pixie () (link) - 02 January '07 - 22:45
I feel for you about the migraine, I get them too. I love the colors on the yarn you got though!I have recently started knitting socks, so I will take your advice about the yarn content.
Feel Better!
Steph () (link) - 03 January '07 - 00:14
Thanks for the sock yarn caution. I’ve wondered whether that 20% nylon actually makes a difference. Guess so, huh?I’m trying to imagine a migraine that doesn’t hurt. Does.Not.Compute.
kmkat () (link) - 03 January '07 - 02:06
Oh no! (The sock horror). Who knew? Uh oh, I think my two pairs are 100% wool. However I appear to be felting them into unwearability instead.Lovely pants for Hamish! And the mittens and the pillow. Too bad about the migraine. So far, this year, I have not had one yet. (Day Two -Migraine free! lol). But I completely understand the ‘Go Away’ part.
Carrie K () (link) - 03 January '07 - 04:24
Happy New Year, Anne! Poor socks (the first sock link didn’t work for me, btw), lovely mittens, poor head…Mary de B () (link) - 03 January '07 - 13:55
Horrid head. Lovely crafty stuff! Shame about the socks. Happy New Year!Louise () - 03 January '07 - 14:30
‘Tis the season for migraines, apparently – I spent New Year’s Day in the emergency room getting fluids and anti-nausea meds. Glad to hear that yours isn’t quite that bad! Hope you feel better soon.Alas re: the socks… I’ve found that out to my own dismay, too.
Chris () (link) - 03 January '07 - 20:11
Boo for migraines, and boo for socky horrors. But think of all the fun you can have now doing crazy multicoloured darning, using sock yarns with requisite nylon content to create amazing one-off masterpieces!rosie () (link) - 03 January '07 - 21:20
Wow! You weren’t kidding those photos were quite shocking. I hope to recover soon.nicole () (link) - 04 January '07 - 09:59
Hope you’re feeling better. And
about the socks. Is it possible to reknit the heel? I haven’t had any disasters, so far, but have invested in some reinforcement thread for future use.http://www.astridsdutchobsessions.com/sc..
Daisy () (link) - 04 January '07 - 18:26
These are lovely.Isabel received a doll for Christmas, which means that she now has two or three – and they can’t all be called ‘Dolly’ because we get confused, so I asked her to come up with new name for doly number 2. ‘Tilly’, said Michael. I told him that we couldn’t really have a Tilly because Ruth’s doll was Tilly, but I’m afraid he’s stuck with it. So I’m afraid that for the time being and until Isabel decides otherwise you you and I both have ‘dolly grand-children’ with the same name!!!
(As far as Isabel is concerned they are all called ‘Dorreeeee’
!
Big Ruth () (link) - 05 January '07 - 22:45
