The Gathering
With the blossoms blooming on the trees, the new year has begun. It is time for the Gnomes to come together once more.
They gather at the toadstool.
Arriving together,
And separately.
They dance Ring Around the Toadstool,
And all fall down.
Then they travel,
To the Great Pukeko,
For story time.
Back at the toadstool elections are held,
And a leader is chosen for the coming year.
At the end of the day they head back home to their families.
Fin
I have a sneaking suspicion, going by the profusion of daisies that have blossomed in my back yard (from the plant I planted last year), and by the pervading scent of Jasmine in the air, that Spring may have finally sprung!
I also have this insane urge to buy some lattice and drape a wisteria plant from it. I may yet do this. I’ll see how much they look like setting me back at the nursery when I go for a walk sometime in the next week!
But what have I been working on? Well you may ask! For some reason I fell in love with a bullion stitch bookmark on Ravelry and scheduled a lesson for myself to learn this amazing new (to me) stitch.
Being in a crochet type of groove, I was inspired by this magazine, which I then bought,
Because …
So I decided it was high time that I learn Irish Lace Crochet. So I headed off to this site, and downloaded myself a 100 year old DMC instruction manual. (Specifically Dillmont, Th. de, ed. D.M.C. Irish Crochet Lace. Mulhouse, Dollfus-Mieg & Cie, [c.1900], 63 pgs and 7 linen patterns.) (I love the internet!)
I began with some leaves,
Then a flower,
Then I decided that my thread was FAR too dense to get the intricacy I was aspiring too, and so I headed back to Morris Craft for a finer gauge.
In between all of that I have also been slowly progressing with the Crown Prince Square. It’s repetitive, and not all that challenging, so I’ll need to finish it fast before I lose interest in it all together!
Just one more repeat of the middle section, then the border of crosses, then it’s on to the outer lace!
Somewhere in there I also made a gnome. *grins*
I’m not sure Elizabeth is as impressed as I am …
Weekend brunches in Newtown’s Buzzz Bar are one of the finer things in life.
The staff are friendly, friends gather, and knitting can be achieved.
I only just managed to snap this shot before all the food on the plate disappeared. I’m sure it was osmosis!
Ah King St. Is there anything else quite like it?
The Crown Prince Shawl is coming along nicely if I do say so myself! Nearly at the half way point for the body.
The nupps are getting a little tedious, and the pattern is repetitive. This last part makes it particularly good TV knitting at the end of a long day!
I went through my yarn stash over the weekend and have turfed a lot of things which I have realised I’m never going to actually knit with (not when I have so much nicer yarn in a different tub!). I will attempt to get it all up to Vinnies this weekend coming if friends don’t claim it first *looks pointedly at a certain subscriber*
Nothing else to report at this juncture.
So this is how I looked at Winter Magic.
My ears didn’t stand up without help though.
And without the hood …
Most of the day I looked like this *points up* as the tongue really got in the way of the lens! Who’d have thought?!
The best bit? I fit right in *grins* I love lime green fun fur!
Pics courtesy of Himself 🙂
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