my week in photos
to make up for recent text heavy posts, today i am going to be photo heavy and write only a little. knowing blogger's unpredictability with photos, it will make it harder work. but everyone loves a good photo... [note. blogger is being a nuisance... this is as far as i can get... photos of other stuff will follow! promise!]
this week i celebrated this...
leo's baby jumper - all knitted up and now all sewed together, even the tricky hood (which really took some doing!).
now to get rid of all those ends...
i worked a lot on this...
this is gloria to date. as you see her, she is lounging around on my sofa. she has spent the week coming with my to work, making appearances on the tube and train, and has been worked on extensively. she has taught me how to stripe. i love her for this. (these colours aren't right, the flash bleached them out a little. they're much more vibrant and very autumnal... like the weather right now)i learnt how to stripe without changing yarns all the time and so am joyfully free of too many ends :
LOVELY stripes! and lovely lovely noro yarn...
i am feeling smug about feeling one of my oldest UFOs:
[imagine a photo of a huge red clapotis here!]
this was my first ever clapotis. i finished knitting it well over a year ago. and i hated it. too big, too chunky, too much yarn. what would i ever do with that? so it stayed in my wardrobe, it's ends hanging out all over the place because i didn't love it enough to weave them in. and then i found it on saturday morning - and remembered the way my office turns my nails blue because it's so cold, and felt it's soft snugglyness, and realised its time had come...
i am spending too much time watching paint dry:
[imagine patches of red and cream on a wall here. they're different shades, but all look the same...]
we're painting our hallway. there comes a time when red paint just looks like red paint and you just stop caring!
and i'm running again:
[imagine running shoes here!]
i ran for an hour today, the longest i've ever managed, about 7.5km. for me, that's good! in a few weeks i'm running 10km so i have to get better!
ok, that's been my week. camping next weekend, so i'll be back after that!
becks xx
posted by becks @ 3:08 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
That little hooded jumper looks lovely - I knew it would - well done you for getting it done.
I admire you for your running I have to say - I hate running, but it was definately the best exercise I ever did - hmmm - perhaps I should go back to it.
Gloria is coming along nicely - can't wait to see her finished.
I can imagine you snuggling up with your giant clapotis - what a seredipidous find just as the wheather goes yuk - I experienced the beginning of that particular weather pattern and it was lovely ! Enjoy the rain and think of me baking with yet another throat infections - oh those pesky planes have a lot to answer for.
Ta ta
I feel exactly the same about my first clapotis (I take it you followed the pattern exact too?!) and it's sitting in my wardrobe waiting for the ends to be woven. It took so long, and cost more than I wanted (6 balls of Noro) that I ended up hating it. With the weather turning I'm wondering whether I should fall back in love...
I love my clapotis, I made it in hipknits silk, people drool over it... and it's snuggly too. Pills dreadfully but mmmm
Had to pop in and thank you for the kidsilk haze and pattern you sent during SP6, finally had time to start on one, WOW. I have always run away from mohair, and lace. It's like knitting a cobweb, but fun. Thanks again for breaking me of another fear.
My next fear to break.. jumping out of a plane.. check out my blog.
Hey lady! I may have missed it -- I haven't been online all that much recently -- but did you finish the log cabin blanket? I want to make one for each of my kids, but I wonder if I have the patience!
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