Here I am again, it’s been a while, mainly due to my illness and then just generally being very busy.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to drag out all of my stash to see just how much there is when it’s all laid out in front of me. You can see the result above! I’m trying not to buy anymore until I’ve worked through some of this but sometimes a bargain is a bargain and you just have to have it. I’m not actively buying put it that way, it’s only if something jumps in front of me that I may succumb 😉
Knitting-wise though I am almost finished with my Waffly Jacket, pattern can be seen here http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/mayer/mayer.html. I’m just doing the collar and then have to seam it. It’s really lovely in the variegated Patons Jet that I’ve used. In between, I knitted a trellis beret from Woolly Wormhead, using Roman Romance from my stash I may add…polishes halo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35782787@N04/4564656977/. It also is lovely and what with this flipping horribly weather, I’ve been wearing it too! Next up I think is going to be Stolen Moments Wrap which can be seen here http://www.indigirl.com/blog/2007/09/simple-elegance/. I have some James C Brett Marble chunky in greeny-blue colours that I won in our knitting group raffle and I think it will look lovely knitted up as this wrap.
Gardening, my tomato, cucumber and pepper plants are all still doing well but I really need to pot them on soon and get them into my little mini greenhouse that my boyfriend put together for me at the weekend. The cucumbers are flowering already! We have done a fair bit of work in my boyfriend’s garden too over the past two weekends. He had a wall built so that he could create a raised bed with a little pond and water feature. We had a tonne of top-soil delivered on Sunday and got the raised area filled, the bucket for the pond sunk in and all the plants put in too. We also planted up some hayrack type wall baskets (12 of them to be exact) and will hopefully be doing the hanging baskets this weekend so in the summer (hahahaha) it will be a riot of colour and we will have a pretty fountain to tickle away in the background whilst we sit and relax and enjoy our work. I’ll get some pictures up when it’s all done.
That’s my update for now, I must try to keep up with this more often and to get pictures included too.