Knitting

Progress

Posted on March 29, 2011 by ghotiindustries

In order to achieve more I have decided to get up earlier. This worked well yesterday morning. Today was not as successful, but I didn’t need to run this morning for my daily exercise, as I shall be walking home tonight.

I feel like my exercise regime has fallen off the rails a little what with the enforced rest from shin splints, but I’m looking into getting a bicycle so I’ll have a no impact workout when/if I need it in future.

I’ve been knitting up a storm for the past 2 weekends, making myself a fichu from this pattern to use as a scarf for this winter.

I’m using Lorna’s Laces Helen’s Lace in the Humboldt colourway.

This is what winding over a kilometer of yarn into a yarn cake looks like!

I have finished the body of the piece, and am about to begin knitting on the boarder.

Wish me luck!

Time away

Posted on March 24, 2011March 24, 2011 by ghotiindustries

Sometimes it’s nice to just take a break and get away from it all. I went here

And stayed here

I went for lots of walks

Found a beautiful house for sale

With bunnies on the gate posts!

I relaxed, did a little shopping, and caught up with friends

I came back feeling refreshed and re-energised.

Socks!

Posted on March 3, 2011March 3, 2011 by ghotiindustries

I did it! I finally finished my latest pair of knee high socks! I’m not sure I can adequately describe just how much I love these socks. The variegations of rotting, bruised flesh accented by the clotting blood is I think perfectly shown off in the entrelac stitch pattern, which I learned specifically to pull these off! 😀 I wanted to highlight the short colourway.

Now for some details;

I used Lorna’s Laces Sheperd Sock in Zombie BBQ. Purchased from Yay for Yarn. I ran out most of the way through when I decided late that I needed knee high socks. Thanks to Kiri for organising me some emergency back up yarn to cover my stupidity! This is the reason for the colour variation at the top. Hand dyed yarn will never look exactly the same, even when from the same batch. It’s part of its allure!

The pattern is Entrelac Socks by Eunny Jang, though I skipped the tassels, and on the advice of some comments on Ravelry when I got to the top increased to 8 stitches as I believe they were designed for narrower calves than mine. 😉

Now for the weather to cool down enough for me to wear them!!!

Time in the Park

Posted on March 1, 2011 by ghotiindustries

One of my favourite pass times is picnics in the park. Large expanses of grass, big trees providing shade from the glaring sunshine, and lazy relaxation time with friends. An extension of this is Teddy Bears Picnics; with a loose definition of “teddy bear”!

(This year along with Titan the chihuahua, We had a pukeko and an elephant.)

Being Summer, we headed for the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens on the harbour for a piece of grass to spread out on for a few hours. We parked under an enormous fig tree (is there any other kind?) for protection and made ourselves comfortable with our cameras.

There were lots of people around, all doing their own version of nothing.

We did a little juggling and poi swinging,

some wild animal photography,

and personally I worked on a sock.

When was the last time you took time out to do your own brand of nothing in the great outdoors?

An exciting life

Posted on January 24, 2011 by ghotiindustries

So much has been going on in our happy little household over the past week!

I’ll begin by letting you know that the Raffle has been extended at the request of Toni the organiser in order to let anyone who missed out on the Auction bidding to still have a chance on some of the Raffles. So the Raffle has been extended to midday Wednesday!

A little closer to home the routine for the year has been settling in, and I now walk home from work 3 nights a week, and go running 3 mornings a week. On the day off we head to Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym.

The most uncomfortable shoes I own …

We also managed a trip to the Art Gallery on Wednesday, thanks to their amazing Art After Hours program. It’s such a calming and inspirational place.

Often a little random too!

I have been knitting up a storm and finishing off some hats to match gloves that I made in previous years.

Nothing I can wear yet in the heat, but fun little projects none the less.

I hope your weeks are being productive and inspiring!

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