A Change...

12:15 AM 2 Comments

...is as good as a holiday.

Or so they say.

What do you think of the look now?


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Squishy Packages

7:21 PM , 1 Comments

I love couriers!  They deliver stuff and it's always good!

This week I got a lovely squishy package that contained:

RRHY

and

RRHY

Aren't they gorgeous?

Maybe you don't think so because they just look shades of grey*, but in real life they are!

Now to knit furiously so my Red Riding Hood Yarn club patterns have lovely modelled photos in the colourway to go with it!

(Don't forget, signups are happening May 1st!)




*You didn't really think I'd post colour photos and ruin the surprise, did you?

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A Different Kind of Stitching

6:10 PM , 2 Comments

Before the days when I knitted and sewed I had a more leisurely pasttime - Cross-stitch.

I have done a variety of different cross-stitches, so many that I have finished ones un-framed and framed ones with no wall space to display them (though that might change with the renovations giving us extra wall space - when it's all finished and my house is back to normal!)

I was only 10 when my parents gave me my first large project.  It was the Summer Carousel Horse from Teresa Wentzler.  This was a big investment for them (this as a kit these days would be worth around $120+).  That was just the start.

I have since completed a Sara Moon, a Nora Corbett, another Nora Corbett, one from the Dimensions Gold Collection, a birth sampler for each of my girls (yet to be framed!), several little quick designs and my favourite, a huge 1m (bit over a yd) long lounging clown which J got framed for my birthday a couple of years ago (I'll have to get a photo when it's back up on the wall).

And then I started knitting.  Which just seemed a lot more practical than doing cross-stitch.  It was a lot quicker and the finished object was more useful than yet another picture to go on the wall (that was out of spare space anyway).

Lately, though, MiddleMiss has been doing a bit of her own cross-stitch and everytime she needed help it made me realize I missed doing it myself.  So, finally last weekend, I dug into my large wooden chest where I keep my cross-stitch stuff (and other craft stuff) and pulled out a partially completed cross-stitch to work on.  (This in itself was an undertaking as the chest is in the shed and has been since we moved to this house - nowhere to fit inside - and was piled high with boxes of stuff-in-storage that I had to move first!)

So, here is what I am working on at the moment:

This is an Anchor kit of Elliot and Buttons called 'A Family Portrait'.  I've made a slight change to the baby elephants so they all have pink dots and stripes (instead of the first and last being blue) to match my girls.  Though it is a little out of date for my family as LittleMiss is definitely not a crawling baby!

This will be my 'weekend' project (or just when I need a break from knitting).  I've finished all the baby elephants and am almost completely finished the mama elephant with bits of the papa elephant done also.  Maybe I'll get it finished by the end of the year?!  (It was started over two years ago and is not a particularly big design.)

But in the meantime, the knitting still continues...



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Lost

7:35 PM 0 Comments

Guess what MiddleMiss lost this weekend?

MiddleMiss
Please excuse the grubby, playing-outside-in-the-garden-all-day clothes!

All of a sudden it got very loose and as it was getting close to bedtime she wanted me to pull it out so it wouldn't come out in the night and get lost.

It's always a little sad when the top teeth come out.  They completely change in the way they look with adult teeth.

Oh, well, I suppose they have to grow up eventually!


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Thank YOU!

7:18 PM 0 Comments

I thought this had been posted last week.  Seems it only got saved as a draft instead!  Oh, well, better late than never...

After a tally up of my sales for the last several weeks, converting to NZ$ and transferring the balance I was able to make a donation to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal of $180!

Thank you to all those that helped make this possible by purchasing any of my patterns during this time.


It may only feel like a small amount when you consider how much more is needed, but really, it's lots of small amounts that add up to big amounts eventually.

There is still a long way to go and the effects of the earthquake will be felt for a long time by the whole country as even the budget allocations from the government will have to come from somewhere.

Donations are still being accepted thorugh various means.  Please donate any money you can to help.


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