Pastel Cashmere Scarf
I stumbled across some hand-painted, lace-weight, pure cashmere on eBay in June and simply couldn’t resist it. Only 40gms but I figured there’d be enough to make a reasonable scarf. I made an Apple Blossom Stole last summer and really liked the lace pattern which was actually quite simple to work. The cashmere seemed ideal to apply the same pattern to a scarf. The only real change I made was to start with a chain of 54 instead of the 78 in the original pattern. I also decided to work the trellis pattern as per the original stole so that…
Nanny Ogg’s Parlour
As I already have 2 dollhouses (a Victorian country villa and a WWII house), it was decided that I would have to switch to room boxes. After all, there’s only so much room for 1:12 dollhouses in a pretty small 3-bed terrace.
The Raw Silk Top Affair
A few months ago, I made myself a really pretty crocheted top ( “Cupcake” from “The Happy Hooker”) using cream raw silk. I was really quite pleased with it. It was cool and really, really, light. Then R got his hands on it…
Back To School
The next school term started today and K was back in class!
Aphrodite Shawl
The last migraine really knocked me for six! Took a good 10 days until the brain was functioning well enough for me to do any coding work. So I crocheted instead.
I’d been eyeing up the Aphrodite/Pineapple Shawl for a while. Plus I made a Sunbeam 100% cotton triangular shawl last year that, whilst it was pretty enough, wasn’t really “me”. Triangular shawls never stay on the shoulders as well as a 3/4 circular shawl and I get fed up of dragging them back up every few minutes.
K’s Tummy Pain
Last October, K had appendicitis. A real Sunday morning 5am ambulance thing. Thankfully nothing ruptured, the surgery was straightforward, the hospital great and he was back home again after a few days.
He’d recovered enough for us to spend a few days in Ireland in early November and was back at school shortly afterwards. But, in late November, he began complaining of stomach pain across his lower abdomen. Thinking that this was a combination of post-surgery healing, perhaps some pulled muscles and maybe a little bit of attention-seeking, we kept telling him that we’d review the situation after Christmas.
It Ain’t Flu – It’s A Migraine!
I’ve finally figured out the reason for the repeated flu-like episodes. They’re Migraines From Hell! And not one medic managed to put 2 and 2 together and figure that that the “flu” that starts with the mother of all head & neck pain (headache is far too mild a word for it) in someone with a 40 year history of migraines justmight suggest particularly severe migraine attacks.
Double Knit Quilt Wrap
So what do you do with all of scraps of coloured yarn left over from making a Granny Afghan? Answer: You make yourself a Quilt Wrap! I love log cabin and mitred squares worked up in different coloured blocks. And I’ve admired the Quilt Wrap for a while. The only problem was that the original pattern called for Rowan Kidsilk Haze — which I hate. It’s really expensive, horrible to knit with and itches like crazy. But then I noticed that a couple of people had knitted the wrap using 8ply/double knit yarn, so thought — why not? Gathered up…
SportsLinx – Never Again!
K had appendicitis in mid October. All went well and he was back at school by mid November with the proviso that he avoid any sports activity that could place strain on his stomach for the next month or so.
The school were (and always have been) great. But after he’d been back about a week, they announced that his class were going on a school trip to the local SportsLinx centre.
Granny Afghan
I’ve always wanted to make a multi-coloured afghan from proper old-fashioned Granny Squares. Finally found a pattern that fitted the bill on the Coats & Clark site, It took me about 6 weeks to gather 12 different yarn colours that I liked and thought would work well together. Ended up with quite a mixture of yarns. Some I liked more than others.
