( General stuff, garden pics, etc. )

Finished my Cadence socks, and they look gorgeous. Loved the design and the end result looks lovely ( Read more... )

For those who have been following our tales of woe on Em's Twitter, etc., let it be known that we arrived home safe. The car seemed fine. The dogs were a bit fretful on the journey, but given that my anxiety level was a degree off thermonuclear, it's understandable, since Pip in particular is really sensitive to that kind of thing. The cats were ( Read more... )

( Knitting plus some pics of my Guardians steelbook )

Got my hardbound edition of Hawkeye 1-11 today.

( Pictures of that and house and garden and knitted stuff... )

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Knitting the last of the sheeps for the Nativity set. I had to give up on using novelty yarn for the fleecy bits, that stuff is a fucking nightmare. I don't know how anyone knits with it. I'm knitting in plain acrylic 8 ply instead, and Emma is gong to needle felt over them in wool from the fleeces we have. We have white, black, silver and brown to ( Read more... )

I just replied to a short email from my mother about my almost 30 year old middle brother *finally* moving out of home, and ended up with an epic summary of my life, so I'm copy-pastaing the whole thing here, because I haven't done a proper post in ages ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again, guys, so this is your friendly reassurance that nowhere near me is on fire. Admittedly, this year it's closer to home than the other year when it was a whole state away. I do have friends and family that are close to the fires. I grew up in Penrith, at the foot of the Blue Mountains which is where the big ones are ( Read more... )

The market went okay. Very few actual sales, but I got a commission to make an aran jumper out of our handspun, so I've been doing that ( Read more... )