Hmm… What to make?
I recently managed to score over 600 yards of Ice Yarn’s Angora Design — a sports weight mixture of wool, acrylic and angora — in shades of cream, greens and reds. Now I just have to figure out what to make with it. Any suggestions?
Cabled V-neck Cardigan
I’ve been meaning to post this pattern for ages. I actually created the pattern last year but kept forgetting to publish it. Having created a cabled jumper for K in 2010, I had decided it was about time I created something cabled for myself. I flirted briefly with the Karisma Cardigan but absolutely hated the pattern, so I went back to basics and created my own pattern instead.
School Play
K has a part in his first major school play. The play is Beauty & the Beast and will, I assume, be a musical.
He had an audition about two weeks ago (when he was apparently told that he had a beautiful voice) and found out that he’d been given a part a few days later. Rehearsals are now about to start in earnest with the play scheduled for performances in July.
Flower Clips
I recently bought some hair clips to try and keep my rather unruly curls out of my face with the idea of adding crochet flowers to each of them. There are lots of patterns for sweet little crocheted flowers out there but not much on actually attaching the flower to the clip. Glue seemed messy (and knowing my luck, unlikely to be a permanent solution). I did find a pattern for creating a crocheted “clip hat” but was both fiddly and a little too bulky for my taste.
The Dreaded Lurgy
It’s been a pretty rough 8 or 9 days here. First K developed a tickly cough followed — 48 hours later — by a temperature and nausea. By this time, I had a thundering headache which simply refused to go away. That’s when it dawned on me that we both might have flu!
