Nupps in Silk

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I powered my way through the Percy Shawl as I really wanted to be able to post it to it’s intended recipient as soon as possible. For no other reason than I really want to give it to her.

Because I can, here is Percy in photos!

Finishing

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It always impresses me just how much lace needs to be blocked, and how little stitch definition you get before blocking.

Off the needles.

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Soaking

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All pinned out.

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I feel terribly bad for having no posts lined up for last week when I suddenly got busy. I’ll try and do better in the future I promise!

Dinner at The Ranch

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Sometimes you just want comfort food. Even better is comfort food when you can convince yourself it’s vaguely healthy! In the effort to appear that we were looking after ourselves, we made pizza for dinner, rather than buying take out.

It’ has all the important food groups, vegetables, carbs, dairy and meat.

Well, the way we make it tends to look a little like this …

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Yes, that is pepperoni, salami, and cabanossi. Also two kinds of cheese. Why do you ask?

Coming out of the oven …

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and heartattack on a plate!

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Can’t ask for more than that really!

Norton St

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As is our habit, we enjoy trying lots of local businesses in an effort to both support them, and find a venue where we are comfortable spending hours (and sometime significant cash) at a stretch. There have only been a couple of places in the last seven-ish years that we’ve been on the search where things coalesced perfectly.. The first was Barzu on Norton St, which closed down. Then there was 2 Front Doors up the hill, which … closed down. We appear to have a new contender called Grind.

So far, on the plus sides they have amazing, friendly, prompt service. Good coffee (harder to find than you’d think in Leichhardt), and easily identifiable delicious food.

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I just don’t feel comfortable pulling out the knitting and relaxing into sitting there for a few hours. Though it’s obvious a few of the other patrons can, and do!

They also have awesome brownies! This is a major positive!

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I didn’t get a photo of the actual brownie, it disappeared too fast!

Next time we’ll sit upstairs and see what that’s like. Let’s hope it doesn’t close down!

Vivid

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We decided we needed to exercise our cameras on the weekend and ended up down in the Rocks (with seemingly the rest of Sydney) watching the spectacular light display that is Vivid.

We began at Customs House. Which was a moving display that took approximately 5 mins to complete and then looped.

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But most of the installations were designed to be interacted with.

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Some interacted with their environment. Like these rods which were activated by the vibration of the train on the tracks above them.

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The MCA was one of the more eye catching exhibits. With people standing in front of it …

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Throwing light paint!

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The queue to participate was really well managed, and even some of the littler kids were getting involved.

The House sails were mesmerising, and I really want to go back before it’s over with the video camera to capture it and the Customs House exhibit.

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We really do have a beautiful city.

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Go see it if you can, before they switch it off!

Percy Shawl

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I have begun this shawl once before, though never finished it. I just never got my needles in the right groove. So it sat there for an incredibly long time, languishing at the bottom of the yarn pile.

But I pulled it out, ripped it back to the beginning and began again last week. A couple of nights effort and I had already done eight repeats of the first of three charts.

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It’s in 100% Mulberry Silk from Fibreworks. I think the colourway was Sarsparilla …

There has also been work on the Amaryllis Mittens.

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All that I have left to do is attach the thumbs! So close!

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