rustic shawl
Small triangle shawl, from some merino roving samples, and since I was just learning, I had not quite enough to finish it with. Had to end it off with the last little bits of the Happy Spider Yarn I had been saving for a rainy day. Since I designated it rustic, and really just wanted something bright for rainy days, it's perfect for that purpose. Roll on winter .....
scar
and while I am all preachy, wear a hat, and sun screen when outdoors (why no, I do not have a hat with me today, why do you ask??)
Scar of a mis spent youth, after my first visit to the plastic surgeon. And blow me down if he did not bother to tighten up any of the smile lines while he was playing around with my face, would have been so hard to tug it all a little flatter Dr L?
Yorrick
I have been awaiting the perfect opportunity to show you all this one. This is Murray, and the boss uses him for demonstrating when lecturing on brains and brain injury. The top of the skull comes off and you can handle the brain, its life sized, and correct weight, and it gives you some idea how fragile the whole system is, how little is between what makes you you, and the very hard world of accidents, cricket balls, cars etc......
Kayla
Kayla has pretty much had the run of the house this week, due to the fact that she had her little "operation" to eliminate the risk of puppies, and we felt sorry for her. Of course, after the first 48 hours, she was so sparky it was a pain having her in the house, but all she wanted to do when she went outside was wrestle with dragon, and I had visions of stitches being pulled out and all sorts of trauma. So now of course the new issue will be how to convince her she is still an outside dog, once the stitches come out on Saturday. Could you argue with that face?
Today dear friends I am wearing cashmere socks (thanks Daphne) and a silk neck kerchief (enchanted knoll - now selling at the Loopy Ewe).
I am wrapped in knitted goodness, and currently knitting a "rustic" (read garter stitch triangle) shawl in hand spun. It is knitted from corner point, increasing a beginning of every second row, to the middle, and then decreasing to the other corner. The plan is to knit one ball to the longest point, one ball back up and the use the smallest amount to knit on a border (or fringe if I am over knitting it at that stage). The yarn is chain plied, from a sample pack Lizzie ordered for my birthday, then promptly forgot about, eventually finding the wool (5 balls of roving, one each of red, hot pink, green, blue and purple) and gifting to me some time in March (5 months later). Because it was a rainbow, sans jeune (yellow), I stripped out some yellow from the sugar and spice roving I got from Mandie, and added it into the rainbow in appropriate order. Oo er, bad Gemma, a rainbow with only 6 colours, how heretical.
hopefully a photo to follow later today, when I have 5 more minutes to take it, then post.
cheers,
PS, neither the new kitten, nor the bloody golden retriever have been strangled ...... yet!
