I’m still here. At least I think I am. To anyone playing along at home, whilst I was at work on my second day at Calico & Ivy, my other new job called, and asked me to start on Thursday last.
So essentially, I started two new jobs in one week, after the luxury of having no job at all for almost a decade. It’s not bad, it’s actually quite fun. But not so fun is working out how to effectively arrange my time. And the blog, and my knitting have suffered. I could also say that the housework has suffered, but let’s be honest, it was never at the top of my priority list!
But I did manage to get something done this week! The linen top I’ve been working on, the one I’ve knit twice in fact, is done, done, done!

Specs:
Pattern: Coco by Yumiko Alexander
Yarn: Fibranatura Flax in “Raseberry”, purchased at The Wool Inn
Needles: First off, 3.5mm, then 4mm. Check your tension!!
I’m very happy with it – I finished it on Monday night, and wore it to work on Tuesday. I even did the two rows of single crochet around the bottom and the single row around the top. Whomever said that crochet is quick lied. Lied. Lied. Lied.
But it’s done, even though Knitabulous thought I’d either whine all over twitter about the crochet, or try to palm it off on her. The shoulder straps are just i-cord, which I knitted on the way down to Canberra last weekend when we went to see the Ballet Russes exhibition at the National Gallery – which was gorgeous!
so the top is lovely, and lovely to wear, too!
Next? Not sure. There’s a few small projects floating about, like the Pompom Tea Cosy for a shop sample.

And the restarted Shurtu’gal socks, this time in red Wollmeise (Vamp)!

Much better than the original, although they’ve barely been touched in days!
I’ve also picked up some Felted Tweed from the shop (amongst other things 😉 to make the Bohus Inspired Hat for David from the Interweave Holiday Gifts 2010 issue. Which my spell check keeps wanting to change to Bogus. Bogus Hat it is!