Another finished object!

I enjoyed knitting the Flower Basket Shawl. I used Bendigo Wool Mills 2 ply (Laceweight) “Classic” in Rosebud. I had a 200g cone, and used around 120g, but I did 8 of the centre repeats instead of 7. The yarn was doubled, and I had to go up to a 6mm needle to get gauge.
I’m pleased with the finished item. I found the pattern easy to follow once I got into the rhythm, but it did take a while.
Stinking hot here today, we’ve been sitting in front of the fan sucking down iceblocks and avoiding all wool at all costs! 🙂
Celia sent me a RAOK today, a gift certificate for Fussy. Lots and lots of nice things over there 🙂 Thanks, Celia!

Well, the Formal gown is hemmed, Em’s last concert costume is done, one more belt to finish tomorrow, and all the costumes are done before photos start on Monday. I have a little quilted Ballerina cushion that I will donate to the raffle fundraiser at the concert to do, and I can breathe more easily. Well, about the dancing anyway!
I have started some top secret Christmas Knitting, which just seems ridiculous in todays 30C temperatures 🙂
I also finished one of DH’s socks. I could really grow to love socks in DK. Takes around half as long to make as in sock weight.
I finished something else, but it’s blocking as we speak, so hopefully I’ll have some pretty pictures for you tomorrow. Anticipation, you know 😉
And just because I haven’t posted a pic of her for a while, here is a picture of my other baby.

Bunny ambrosia. Are these dandelion flowers? We call them wet-the-beds. In any case, it’s like chocolate for bunnies. Well, actually, she has her own special chocolate too, but she loves these weeds. It’s my husbands excuse for not mowing the weed patch we call a yard. I’m sure the neighbours think that we’re nutty when we go and pick all the weeds in their front yards 🙂

Look what I got in the mail today 🙂

Katy sent this to me as a prize in a competition she had a while back. I love sock yarn!! It is so hard to get in Australia, we can get a few varieties of Opal and some Patonyle, which is the local equivalent of Kroy, I think. I love trying out all the varieties available in the US 🙂
And on the weekend, I found this –

I had it on my Amazon wishlist, but they insisted that it was out of stock. Who’d have known that I could find in locally? At this time of year, some of the shopping centres set up stalls in the middle of the centre and sell calendars. Usually I get a Polar Bear calendar, but Em spotted this, and grabbed it up for me. It was the only one left. $22.95 locally, but that was fine by me. DH has now asked me to knit a pattern every day. Sure.
I finally realised today that Christmas is less than 6 weeks away. Shit. I have done hardly any shopping, let alone knitting, and we are supposed to be leaving for a holiday we can’t afford in 5 weeks, 1 day and 8 hours. Dancing concerts, presentations, rehearsals and photos are taking up a great deal of the next two weeks, the car needs to be serviced, our cable is being upgraded, another of my nieces is having her First Holy Communion this weekend. Emily has a big school dance coming up for the end of Year Six, and I need to adjust her dress.
And I’m sitting here typing 😉

Here, in all it’s glory, is Em’s stripey sweater!

I made myself sit down and seam it this morning, and I didn’t move until it was done. It has been received with great enthusiasm, I am pleased to say 🙂
Knit Happens have just got in some Lorna’s Laces in their own very special colourway, which would match this sweater beautifully! I emailed Kristine and asked her how much postage would be for 2 hanks, but I think I better email her back and ask for three – so both Em and I can have socks in it 🙂
Still working on the Floser Basket shawl, and I cast on some more socks, this time for DH. The yarn came from a local eBay seller, and is a DK weight – and I have to say, it’s alot quicker than normal sock yarn! I’ve already turned the heel on the first one.
Must go, the final episode of Sex And The City is about to start – yes, it’s only just playing here in AU.

I’m having a serious case of the blahs. I feel like I have nothing interesting to blog about, I can’t get seriously involved in one project. I work a few rows of one thing, then work on something else. I still have two more costumes that need adjusting before next Monday, I have my niece’s Formal gown here that needs to be hemmed before Friday. I just can’t get motivated to do any of it.
It was extremely windy here yesterday, and I felt a bit edgy, perhaps it’s just hanging around a bit. High winds always set me off for some reason.
Finished socks! I finished the Fluted Bannisters, and there is more than 2 weeks for the deadline, Yay me!! 🙂

I’ve done six repeats of the Flower Basket Shawl. It still looks very small. I know it’s not a huge shawl anyway, and it will block out bigger, but I still think I’ll do one or two more repeats than called for.
I blocked the stripey sweater this evening, and I’ve started seaming it up. I got the sleeves in, now it’s just seaming the stripes. Don’t let me do stripes again in a hurry 🙂
Blah, blah.
Oh, and this is my 200th post. Yay!!