I was updating my Ravelry projects over the last few days and had asked my wonderful hubby to take some photographs of #2 in the longies I made for him earlier this year. Of course I was banking on #2′s usual hamming-it-up-for-the-camera which simply didn’t happen. Thank the deity for chocolate though, a wee bribe and he was suddenly all for it again!
The toes just make it for me. I want to tickle his feet!

I counted up my completed projects on Ravelry and I managed an average of one knitted project per month through 2008 which isn’t bad but could have been better. A lot of my knitting time was spent on Erica’s christening gown which I ended up ripping out, and by a lot of my time I mean easily an hour a day for three months. When I go into a knitting frenzy though I tend to zip through my projects, there’s no happy medium! Ah well. I have a few projects lined up in my queue and probably the largest of those is the February Lady Sweater by Pamela Wynne. It’s an adaptation of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s February Baby Sweater and it is just divine but also the largest project I will ever have attempted. I do baby clothes, I do toys, I do gloves – I don’t do adult garments!

On the subject of adult garments, did any of you see this gorgeous owl sweater which Ysolda Teague linked to yesterday? How amazing is that?! I’d have to admit that I think I’m probably too busty to pull off such a delicate sweater but it’s just a fantastically-executed design and I think from what Ysolda was saying, the designer is a relative novice! I can’t believe how chuffed I was creating my mittens but I really hope that girl has an enormous feeling of pride in her work. Admittedly, when Jessica Marshall Forbes of Ravelry and Kathy of Grumperina are leaving comments on your blog then it’s a pretty safe sign that you’ve created something amazing. Well done Kate!

The other thing I wanted to blog today was this bird bag made my Carina Envoldsen-Harris. I don’t want to hotlink her image and steal her bandwidth, but can I recommend that you all go and check it out because it’s a thing of beauty AND the best bit? Carina’s bag was made from fabric you can get in ikea!

So, a Happy New Year to all of you and lang may yer lum reek wi’ ither fowk’s coal! My resolution for 2009 is to blog at least once a week, even if it’s just an update on things I’m working on. We’ll see how long that lasts!

Posted under general crafty updates, knitting

I’ve done it again

I’ve signed up to FlyLady to try and get some order in my house.

For those of you who have never heard of FlyLady before today, it’s a relentlessly cheerful American site packed full of hints and tips to get your home organised and is supported by a mailing list. The mailing list sends up to 20 emails per day to inspire you to get up and at ‘em. With snappy catchphrases and merry mnemonics the help is definitely there if you can take it seriously. My inner feminist is screaming out at how gender-specific the concept is, but with many satisfied users the idea clearly has merit. So we’ll see if I make it to the weekend without unsubscribing from the mailing list!

Tonight’s little anecdote comes courtesy of my lovely hubby. We’re trying the baby in a bed tonight for the first time since we’re going to need her cot in a few months for her sister or brother. Hubby went to check and make sure she was in bed, stuck his head round the door and looked faintly surprised as he confirmed that yes indeed, she was in her bed with her duvet over her…

… until he picked the other child off the floor and almost herniated a disc. #2 has gone to sleep in the baby’s bed (in which I suspect he is tall enough to touch the headboard and footer at the same time!) and she was asleep in the middle of the floor curled in a ball with the duvet around her. I suspect it’s going to be a long night!

Posted under family, self-sufficiency