Tuesday, April 29, 2008

knitterly goodies!!!!


I took part in the current round of secret santa on the crafty threads forum and my gift arrived today!!!
Some chocolate, yummy!!!! Some gorgeous handmade buttons, and some Habu silk/steel laceweight!!! It's a lovely gift and I'm thrilled with it. I want to make a scarf with the laceweight I think, just need to find a pattern suitable for it. Looking on ravelry, the Habu seems to have been used for plainish scarfs, but I was thinking something airy and open lacey iyswim..........
I've just been doing easy knitting whilst I've been on nights as knitting time has been limited. I started Montego bay last year and only did a couple of inches before it was dropped in one of my many WIP bags, but I rescued it before the weekend, and its now finished!!! It's lovely. I haven't decided whether to add fringing or not yet?! It's blocking and I'll take a picture when its finished off properly.

The sun has been shining today so I've been laid on our hammock in the garden. I love it when its sunny, I like to lie and listen to the world go by, no music, no book, just quiet....... Bliss:-)
It's a good job it's warmed up a little, our boiler has packed in and we've had no hot water or heating since saturday morning:-( Hiopefully it will be sorted tomorrow, cold showers are definately NOT fun!!!!!!!!

5 Comments:

Blogger gilraen said...

I couldn't do cold showers!!

Lovely parcel!! I'm really delighted with the swap this time we have all done so well :)

I'm really interested in how it knits up :)

7:17 PM  
Blogger Auntie Noo said...

Oh gosh the memory of last summer's cold showers has just come flooding back! Poor you. The weather down here is dreadful, it hasn't warmed up at all. Your parcel looks loverley!

7:22 PM  
Blogger florencemary said...

Great gifts! Love the buttons particularly... I've knitted with the Habu (the Kusha Kusha scarf) - it's a bit weird, but quite a nice effect.

Good luck with the boiler! Or else it's the tin bath in front of the fire...

6:32 AM  
Blogger Linda said...

Wow! Fab gifts. yuk to cold showers though!

7:13 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your monkey socks are finished and blocking , just one more monkey to get , and then the parcel will be heading off to you . Have a nice week end.

anonymous monkey sock swap 4 pal .

1:56 PM  

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