Thank you everyone for your comments and emails. If anyone received a thousand or so identical emails from me, I sincerely apologise – gmail has been a pain in the butt all day, and says some emails weren’t sent at all, but apparently they were sent several times!

So, I slaved all weekend, and the tutu is finished. Then I found out today that she doesn’t need it until the 19th. At least it’s done. I’m not going to show you pictures, I’m going to make you all wait until the 19th, and you can see her all done up in it properly! 🙂
In sad news, Fuzzy, the budgie who thought he was human, is no more. We noticed last night that he had a very large swelling, and thought we were mistaken about his sexual identty, and that he (or she) was eggbound.
So we raced him off to the vet first thing this morning, who thought the same as us, but was mystified that for five years we’d thought Fuzzy was a he.
After many tests failed to expel the “egg”, Fuzzy passed away. The vet did a little exploratory surgery, and the “egg” was in fact a large, fast growing tumour, and there was nothing we could have done to change things. (And we weren’t mistaken, Fuzzy was a he).
He was only a budgie, but we’d had him for five years, and the house is suddenly far too quiet 🙁

Edging.

Tutu.

We found out this morning that Em doesn’t need the tutu at the end of the month.
She needs it on the 12th or the 19th. Like, 9 or 16 days.
Everybody cross your fingers for the 19th, please!

The bits for the Zhivago cardi are blocking.

And I’ve started the edging.

The main body of the cardi is worked on 4mm needles, and the lace edging calls for 7mm needles. I tried the 7mm, but the work was just too loose for my liking. I’ve gone down to a 6mm, and it seems a little better, but it’s going to feel like it’s going on forever. I quite like knitting with the Zhivago, although I’m coming across a lot of these little tangles.

This one was easy to undo, but some of them are true knots. I have to tease out the loop, and thread the ball through it. Weird.

Thank you every one for the emails and comments! I’m feeling a little better this week, but completely unmotivated and uninspired. For my week off, I have very little to show.
The pink cardi continues.

Two very curly, unblocked fronts.

Two half done sleeves. And that’s the whole of the knitting I have achieved. Realisation has been slowly dawning that Em needs her tutu at the end of the month, so I’ve had to work on that a bit.

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It’s coming along, but there’s still some work to be done. More diamonds, some of the flower motifs are still only pinned on, the whole top plate needs to be sewn on, the elastic straps aren’t sewn down, and the bodice needs to be decorated. Thant’s all!!
And the colour is all wrong in the picture!
Christy tagged me to show the view out my front door. Well, now you’ll all know that I don’t live in a gorgeous big mansion! Here’s the view down the driveway.

And here’s the view up the driveway.

They all look the same, yes. We live in a block of villas. At least that’s what we call them in Australia. There’s 24 smallish houses on the same (large) block, all with a common driveway and a handkerchief backyard.
Twinkie says “The important thing is that it’s where we keep the food!”