Waiting... waiting... what to do when waiting

So life's not that fantastic at the moment. The job hunting is time consuming and often demoralising.  My health is not too great either.  Nothing major but the odd little niggly thing that tells me I'm not at my best.  I'm even falling out with my Girls :0(


So when the youngest headed off to town with Dad, probably to give poor beleaugered Mum (that's me!) a bit of Alone Time, I decided to get on with carding up the last bit of Shetland I've been blending for the Brown Man Jumper I'm knitting as a commission.


Whilst listening to some soothing music with ipod set on shuffle and feeding fibres into my trusty Drum Carder I had a lightbulb moment.  

I haven't been making enough Yarn!!

If that's not the cause of my recent malaise, then it will certainly help the symptoms, especially when considering the bag of lushious Mullberry Silk I got for christmas, patiently waiting for the return of the creative juices.  It seems so obvious now.  Instead of fretting about not getting a job RIGHT NOW.....I shall start visualing blends of jade, petrol and peacock blue with ripples of silk running through.   I have placed an order with Wingham Wool Works which will make the postman even more eagerly anticipated when he comes!

Hopefully some lovely pics to follow :0)

TTFN x x

FO update!

My lovely Special Fibres have become.....................



I'm in a really self indulgent knitting phase at the moment, where all I seem to be able to knit are beautiful garments for myself!! I'm also really loving the simplicity of the raglan topdown cardie format. For this little top I used the Caplet pattern and modified it slightly. I cast on 4 times as many stitches as I needed and did two decreasing rows to make the frills.

I think its worked really well, but I haven't worn it yet. I'm considering selling it to fund my fluff habit, I regularly drool over these!!

School placement has finished now to life can slow down (but just a tad!). I loved my time in school (which is handy when considering a career move into teaching!), all I have to do now it write another dratted assignment then its PARTY TIME!!!!!!!

Pics!!

At long last here are some photo's of yarn and a finished item!!

First up Cable Cardie.......(apologies for my haughty expression..I don't photo well!)

I so totally love this little cardie and haven't stopped wearing it from the day I finished it. I still haven't washed 'n' blocked it yet!

And here is the Special Wool all set and ready to be wound. I'm making a variation on this Capelet here.





TTFN XXX

Off Task!

So there I was lovingly eeking out the spinning of my Special Fibres when A Distraction occurred.........in the shape of 3 knitting mags someone donated to the charity shop my mum helps in.


I never knew how totally fantastic and absorbing they were. I used to occiasionly be seduced by the odd Heat or Closer (if I was stuck in a train station or something) but I would always feel a bit wrong after, they are somewhat voyeristic and I never like the whole focus on who was too fat and who was too skinny. No, from now on if I have some spare pennies I can see one of these mags being a perfect treat!

After three days of thumbing through I couldn't hold out any longer and just had to knit the Cable Cardie and what better yarn to use than the softest of soft Alpaca I had used as a practice spin.

Special went on hold and as the kids are on Easter Hols I had time to spin. There's no need for housework when kids are at home, its just not worth it, plus the fact the Eldest, at the grand old age of 13 is now interested in shopping and money so its always worth while keeping a few jobs free for her to earn some cash!!

Now I know after the time it took to finally finish Hey Teach I swore I would NEVER attempt another garment....but........well its just a bit like childbirth isn't it? Once the pain is over you forget it was ever a struggle. I'm hoping I have learnt some lessons from the last effort and this time.................well this time will be different :-)




Special is not forgotten though, I'm loving taking my time to spin it,
the tricky part will be trying to decide to what to knit.

Suggestions on a postcard? x