New for summer!

What have I been up to this week?

Well, I've been busy in my craft area making tonnes and tonnes of new bags to sell in my Folksy and  Etsy shop.  There is a cord turquoise pyramid bag (my favourite), a strawberry and two new floral ones.

 Beautiful Meadow

Strawberry Fields

Daisy Chain

Plus squillions of pattern keepers in lovely new designs and one new needle case too.  Haven't I been busy?

Puss in Boots (magnetic) pattern keeper

Little Bird (magnetic) pattern keeper

Geisha (magnetic) pattern keeper

 

Flower (magnetic) pattern keeper

I've also started my Sweetheart cardigan, and   I have to say it's looking pretty good, pretty good.

 Neck detail (back)

I'm enjoying the way that it's knitting up in the yarn I've chosen (Rowan Calmer shade 495), although the yarn is now discontinued, cue,  a bit of a panic at the beginning of the week when I realised I was running out of yarn.  I was able to find some on sale at Cucumberpatch although not in the same dye lot, so I took a bit of a gamble and to be honest when it arrived I couldn't tell the difference,  it looks the same. 

Shoulder Stitches (join)

Look,  the coolest part is the sleeve seams.  I keep stopping to look at them as they are so neat and pretty.

Border Stitches

I think I'm going to enjoy wearing this cardi, and if it looks as good on me as it is on the needles I can see me making a second and maybe a third one. Yip, it's that good.


 Knitting Update
This is extremely difficult for me to confess, some of you may remember back in April I wrote a post with the title I'm an idiot about a large piece of knitting I had found stashed away and how I couldn't for the life of me remember what pattern it was from.  Well..... I was sitting the other night on Facebook, as you do,  and I saw a feed for Knitty, and I thought "Oooh www! They've got a new set of patterns, think I'll go take a look".  Half an hour into my browsing session I decided "wonder if they have anything good in their previous additions".  You all know what's coming next.  I'm sitting browse, browse, browse and then I stop dead and just stare at the screen, there staring back at me is the b*&^$y pattern I was using for the piece.  It was as though someone had switched a light bulb on in my head. "Oh yeah, I remember what pattern I was using now".   The pattern was Adeline by Heather Hoefle. The agony doesn't end there though,  oh no! Cause just three days earlier, I frogged the piece of knitting to start something new.  I could've head butted the image I was so gutted.  So now when I knit something new, I bag the knitting with the pattern, so I won't end up in this sorry mess again.

Anyone for crochet?

I've been on holiday from college now for about three weeks, I could say I have been enjoying myself, but I would be lying. I've been ill for nearly two of the weeks with a terrible head cold, and then a week later when I thought I was recovering, I succumbed to strep throat. I'm now, touch wood, on the mend but have been left with sore sinuses and horrendous ear ringing.

The ear ringing is a mixture of fuzziness and someone randomly trying to play a tune on a Stylophone but failing miserably.  Anyone who hasn't heard of this toy, it was around in the 70's and was meant to be totally addictive and made famous by everyone's favourite paint-chucker i.e. Rolf Harris.  It's allegedly trying to make a comeback - the Stylophone that is.  I personally won't be buying one as I have my own built in version that plays 24-7. 
Doesn't the guy in this picture look like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory? Lol!
Love that programme.  I have a bit of a soft spot for Leonard ( how embarrassing is that).

So in an effort to cheer myself up, I have been making crochet squares, lots and lots of yummy squares, in a variety of different colours of Schachenmayr Nomotta Catania yarn.   In an attempt to cover my humongous sofa with them, I happened upon the shocking discovery that I'm  running out of yarn. Paul offered to purchase the yarn for me, but when I told him I could only get it from Germany, and it was going to cost £40's he quickly changed his mind.
Oh! Well, it was worth a try eh?

Lennox

No words can describe how I feel about the treatment of this poor soul, condemned to death even though he was innocent.  My heart goes out to his family.  Run free little one.