Past Times

I found these photos in my folder. I never got around to posting them before! This is the very nice people from Fyberspates who were doing a roaring trade at l'Aiguille en Fete, the big knitting event in Paris that Margareta and I went to at the beginning of March. It was a quarter the size of Ally Pally and with alot more patchwork. The few Uk stalls there attracted alot of attention as they stood out as significantly different, and more forward looking.



While in the UK recently I went to the Shambles Carnival Club Jumble Sale. Held at the beginning of April every year and the biggest one in the West. It is almost impossible not to find something useful there. In fact it would be possible to completely furnish your house and clothe your family there. And the books...!

For Owen and George

In the Uk I spent time with my gorgeous nephew, George. He is a BIG Lego fan. We were cruising the Lego site composing a wishlist when we decided to checkout his cousin Owen's (my nephew in Seattle) Amazon wishlist. This fascinated George, especially the fact that Owen and he obviously have the same tastes. Just to prove it I am posting a photo of George with the instruction manual for one of the Bionicles on Owen's wishlist. (I forgot the name, they are somewhat strangely named). (Sorry for the out of focus shot)



So what do you think Owen?

Secret Pals rock

When I came back from the UK there were 2 parcels waiting for me. The last parcel from my SP9, Janice, and the first one from my SP10.

Unfortunately my camera is playing silly buggers. The autofocus stopped working and I hadn't realised. When I tried manual focussing I realised I probably need glasses! So please excuse the crap photos.



Hope I don't forget anything here there was so much from my SP9. Luscious merino wool, a huge handpainted hank, Green and Blacks hot chocolate (bliss, bliss). Short knitting needles (4 pairs!), patchouli incense, a pom pom maker, a wool comb (for those pilled bits). Chocolate (yum), a lovely glass pendant and amulet bag, hand cream a scented tea light, notelets, and various packs of things for scrap booking or card making. This was simply stupendous. Thank you so much Janice.



Equally welcome was my SP10 parcel. Some scrummy lace weight shetland yarn and a pair of socks worth of Knitpicks sock yarn in a lovely solid colour (I love multicolours but really need some solids for all the lovely patterns out there at the moment that just don't look right in anything but solids or semi solids). Some really unusual beads including a giant glass fish. Again scrapbooking bits and also a bag of supersoft tops in lots of colours. All smelling delicious because of the bag of lavender.

This is also a good time to say another thank you to my SP8 Lorena. I have been using the clover bamboo dpns she sent me and I think I like them even better than my Brittanys. They are so smooth. She also knitted me a pair of socks which have become my all time favorites, they are so comfortable, I feel disappointed whenever they are in the laundry! Before this I was never quite sure about all the fuss about handknitted socks. well I am a convert now!

So much for good vibes from swaps. I am trying not to get despondent about the fact that I still have not received anything from the 'Spin me a Treasure' swap. It is now months after the end and a month after I was promised an angel but still nothing. Ah well.

Sorry Normal Service will be resumed soon

Sorry to be absent so long. I went to the UK at very short notice for 10 days. I had a bad cold and cough the whole time and now I am back home and feel like I have flu! So once I have wallowed in self pity for a couple of days I will post photos of the lovely, lovely parcels that were awaiting my return from my SP10 and my SP9! Bonne Sante