I am absolutely shattered and Nell is going back to sleep on her own tonight! Nell is obviously feeling A1 and she wants to go out to lay. But she isn’t allowed to for another week yet. She’s whining and whimpering and being a right royal pain. Added to which is the fact that she …
Monthly archives: June 2008
Giggles
Somebody asked me yesterday why suddenly people are knitting socks on the ferry these days. Well, it’s the famous Sanday Sock Cult… I said. Which led to a minor mental aberration, and my secret renaming of the Sanday sock knitting ladies as…The Sanday Sock Cultists. I giggled, on and off, all the way home. What? …
Better today
The Official Blog Puppy is feeling much perkier today. Good, I am glad of that. I, on the other hand, feel punch drunk – very tired and a bit woozy. So, no catch up post from yesterday yet. I’ll do pics and some notes later in the week.
Poor blog puppy
Poor baby! It has been a long hard day. Not much knitting got done We went to Stromness, where I took around 40 pictures, but this is all you are getting for now, and Mr L bought me this… “carded Orkney Wool” from The Sorting Room (a sort of artists co-op) – I liked the …
Burning again
Cash and Burn is under way again, and the second sock is cast on, joined, and the rib begun. That should keep me quiet on the boat. And I am almost ready to graft my scarf – but that will be later in the week, I think. Once that is done, and this sock is …
Not really…
It’s not really castonitis. It’s more knitting-as-therapy. Yes, I have a new project on the needles. It will soon be off again. I am rattling up a 4 ply Shetland Lace scarf. After spending so much time on the web mastering recently, I was feeling very much in need of some mindless knitting. I dug …