The first few months of Willow's life have been a huge contrast with River's early weeks. No pain, no despair, no isolation, no borderline PND. It's been wonderful, in fact ( Read more... )

Okay. We're completing on Thursday 11th February now. That is, if we can get in and see the house before that date, and can get the gas re-connected (we only found out on Thursday night that it was currently disconnected, and it can take 5 working days to sort that out, apparently). I'll be so glad when this process is over. May we never move ( Read more... )

Matt's sister is due to give birth any day (actually, she was due to give birth nearly two weeks ago, but apparently late delivery is very common in first pregnancies) so I feel I can finally reveal the answer to my other mysterious UFO conundrum. It was not a legless elephant, Loz, or a cozy for an iron, Inkwolf. It was in fact one of these ( Read more... )

Weeks ago I posted pictures of two unfinished knitted things. Loz, the second thing was NOT a therapy trampoline for an amputee elephant. Inkwolf, you were right: the second thing WAS a lacy beret. Here's a bad picture of it (and sadly the only one, because I gave it to my mum the next day):


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What are these going to be?


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Yesterday I made a hat. It's for my historian friend, to go with the scarf I made for her last year.


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This one was a gift for Matt.


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Here's a project that took me exactly two days to make -- including buying the wool, weaving in the ends, and sewing the sides together.


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This time it's knitting!


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It took me five weeks of internet deprivation to just get my head sorted out enough to begin to attempt a bit of writing. So what did I do for those five weeks, if I wasn't reading my f-list or writing my story?

I injured my hands and wrists with Too Much Knitting! ( pictures under the cut )