Thank you

Firstly I wanna say a big 'Ta' to everyone for being supportive with my newfound skills and for not laughing at me being thick!

I've now completed both fronts and the back of Jenny... just the sleevies to do now- my least favourite part of jumpers/cardis as i don't like sewing them in. But, seeing as it's raglan... this should be easier... right??















Fronts together and back of Jenny

Today has been crappy, but funny. It's been crappy because of feeling poorly- I've been having riotous headaches for over a week but I don't suppose there's much else to do about them. Today has been funny because my friend from work has been telling me how her date went last night; or nearly didn't because some other bloke turned up before she was supposed to be going out! Yikes! Glad I don't have that problem.

Darling Fiance has got me a copy of the *new* 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So if the CSI double Tarantino episodes are cancelled (again, rant!) I shall watch Charlie instead! Btw I adore Nick in CSI!

I was thinking today about starting some gifts for xmas/birthday rush. I came to this charitable way of thinking after attempting a new project. And failed. Again. It was called 'Cardinal Grapje' and was a pattern I found reading someones blog... which I then went onto someone elses and completely lost track of how i got there. Its such a pretty design, but whether its me (most likely) or the pattern, i just couldn't get the rows to line up properly.

After the second failure of pretty patterns I thought maybe after doing knitting for others I would find my flair and put some more "zing" into my knitting. I've really enjoyed the two mini clapotis I made and the branching out scarf... what can I try next? I've seen a few sock patterns but it's the dreaded double points... they all seem to be sizes I don't have and I really need to curb the spending after this month's parcels!

Oh well...best get cracking on those sleeves if Jenny want's to be finished.

Post jenny woes...

Yes it was me. Yes I'm having a stupid day.
Thanks to Anne on UK Handknitters I've seen how utterly stupid I was being. Because I won't have cast off all the stitches will I... stupid girl. Crisis over.

However... I have

• done 3 flow charts for my Honours Project protocol
• and if no-one had noticed I've finally managed to put up some links and such on the blogspot!

Hurrah, aren't I clever and I did all by myself (nearly- I found some help on the blogger dashboard). But I didn't ask Darling fiance for help so I did it by myself!

Now that I have appeased my guilt with some work and cheered myself with new things, I can go to bed a happy lady!

Jenny woes

Hey folks

I'm afraid I may be being a little dense here, but what the hell...I'm stuck!!

I'm having trouble working out the last part of the Left front of jenny. I've completed the back no trouble, but I'm a bit confused about the instructions for shaping the neck on the fronts.
I'm decreasing above the armhole for the raglan now, but to shapethe neck it says:
(26st)
RS:k2tog, patt 8 st, cast off rem 16st
Break yarn
Rejoin yarn with WS facing and dec 1 st at neck edge on next fiverows and at same time dec 1st at raglan armhole edge of 2nd and follalt rows, ending RS facing for next row. 2st
K2tog and fasten off.

Qu: Why do i have to cast off only to rejoin the yarn when I end at the correct edge?

Hmmm.

Well I'm gonna have a fresh look at it tomorrow and maybe ask mum if I go for lunch... but since I've slacked and not done as much work as I was supposed to havedone, it looks unlikely. And to think I missed our knit-chat today as well!

I rarely miss our Saturday meets but I've been feeling so poorly with my headaches this week plus the PMS that I felt that a day indoors might help me to recooperate... and do some work for my Honours Project.

Well... I'm tired from reading stupid papers on myeloma and various immunological methods of detection. I've put little yellow sticky notes on them as well to pinpoint important passages without drawing all over them too! Now I've got to make a flow chart of laboratory protocols and research a little more before starting a Literature Review on the subject of my project... all this and still haven't got the ethics sorted. Hmph! And to think I have to start collecting samples next week!

I'll post some piccys up tomorrow of the progress on Jenny... if I ever figure out the reasoning of the pattern.

Maybe it's Rowan? Then again maybe it's me!

Backtracking Ideas

On the other hand, after attempting to swatch the 'Elspeth' pattern I totally think the pattern is a little advanced... so it's definately not going to be a recent project! Just as well the Calmer was bought for somethinge else!

So... with no proper knitting done, having watched a film and had an argument with the fiance over stupid trivial bickerings, I'm thoroughly pissed off and going to bed in a mood.

Damn these PMS hormones and Damn stupid knitting charts.

Definately a pink day

Yesterday was definately a pink day... as was today! I'm having a phase I think!

On Monday I knit a mini clapotis (see previous posts) in South West Trading 'Bamboo' (shade bougainvillea)

I wore it yesterday with a bright pink gypsy skirt and lilac lacy top. Very Girlie!
And here's me modelling it for you today with another pink patterned top, but I restrained myself and wore it with black capri pants today ;o)

Also looking weary after a hard day's work and cooking curry in this heat for my dear beloved (who only does oven chip food combinations).

Another pink picture is the little teensy bit of crochet I learnt yesterday.

I bought 'Simply Knitting' magazine for the first time, only to find the main 2 patterns were Rowan patterns I already have in other Rowan books. Hmph! Nevertheless, I learnt how to do a chain, double crochet and a half-treble for £3.45 and a free plastic hook! I thought that a few crochet skills wouldn't go amiss since a lot of edgings on knitted items are crocheted. Dont worry I'm not abandoning knitting or turning to 'The Dark Side'!

Lastly for the pink pictures is the progress I've made with 'Jenny'.

I've decided after a little bit more knitting that I like it and will now get cracking! Here she is... a bit crumply on the needle, but I love the 'blossom' cotton from HipKnits! The only problem I have with cotton is that it's harder on the wrists than wool and makes my fingers ache much quicker. With wool I can knit for hours, but after 40-60mins I have to stop. Frustrating when i want to zoom along!

Thankyou all for sharing your view on 'Jenny'. I guess sometimes I need a little encouragement to crack on with some things. I don't have as many WIPs now that I've finished mini clapotis' and such. I estimate that I have about 5 apart from 'Jenny', with one being an experimental OSW in giotto on 7mm needles and another Colinette project long ago knitted and just awaiting sewing up. So for me that aint bad!

Though I'm wondering whether to have a go at 'Elspeth' in Rowan Magazine 37... it was published in this months 'Simply Knitting' and somehow called to me though I'd seen it before. I suppose it's because I have some Calmer in the stash in my all time favourite colour 'Joy'. The majority of shade cards make it look navy, but I had to take a piccy to show you that it's more auberginey-purple ( picture came out a little lighter as I had to put 'big light' on!)

So vote now... shall I, shan't I... Like I need another WIP!!!....but she's lovely...ooh I don't know what to do! ;o)

After eating all the cherry tomatoes I shall now try and get enough knitting in before bed time!

Couldn't resist!

Another WIP??!! Oh yes...!

I actually need your opinion. I've started a cardigan pattern from Rowan Magazine 37 called 'Jenny'. It has a sorta staggered eyelet pattern and I'm not sure if using thw pattern in combination with HipKnits 'blossom' cotton works well.

I'd love to hear what you think. Here's what I've done in a short burst today:

back of cardi

The picture is a little blurry I'm afraid as I had a headache attack while at the christening/party today. I'm not recovering all that well but i'm off to bed now. My sister Julia was 40 on friday and had a joint bash with Alex's christening which was this afternoon. Lovely time apart from the nauseating pain. Still, I held it together so thats what matters.

Nothing else exciting to add to that apart from ruining my pinky-red dress (shock horror i NEVER wear dresses!) because I dropped a strawberry loaded with double cream all down my front. Serves me right!

On a roll!

Well I'm on a roll this week guys... not only have I managed to blog lots this week butI've finished a OSW and a Jnr Clapotis as well!
I made it from a mixture of Fiona's laceweight marino in 'blue laburnum' and Rowan 4-ply Soft in 'military'. Sounds odd?

Well I liked it... wonder how the clapotis would be made from just laceweight? Too flimsy?

Well I don't have anything else to report tonight... apart from having a go at making my own icon lady- does it look like me? I'm not convinced- maybe you need someone else to do them for you?

You can find the link on Lixie's blog ( I still haven't learnt how to put up sidebars and links- pfft anything computery and I'm lost!)

Well I'll bid everyone goodnight and hope you have a great weekend!

Junior Clapotis

Hey folks
I've started another project today- totally against my promise- especially after OSW! However, it's a cute little thing and hopefully won't take much more than a few days. It's called a 'mini clapotis' and I found it while browsing blogs this morning. How I got there I have no idea. I had to google the blog again tonight to find the blog to find the link to the pattern!

The blog I found inspiration on was Yarny. Since this morning she has finished her mini clapotis and it's in nothing other than Hip Knits silk- she's made something really beautiful.
The pattern is on Knit Pixie but you have to register to access the free patterns. It's free so well worth it.
Here's a piccy of the scarf-lenght mini-clapotis which is on the site:















I love the look of it and maybe once I've mastered this I'll go back to 'big daddy' Clapotis.
I'llpost piccys when it's done, don't want to spoil any surprises!

One glass of wine and 3 squares of Thorntons Dark Chocolate with Ginger Pieces later, I am 3 repeats into section 3 and satisfied enough to rest.

Now it is bedtime.

Improvisation!

Well life seems to be all about improvisation lately. Nothing quite turns out as planned... is having the skill to improvise better than making the perfect fool-proof plan? Hmmm....

Well while some of you ponder that queation, I have pictures of a finished item! True I should never have started it in the first place, but it wasn't my fault. Really. The lady knows who she is! ;o)

Well here is my own improvised version of One Skein Wonder.











back










front

It's made with the 'free' Sari silk I had from Hip Knits and some Jaeger 'Aqua' dk cotton in 'indigo'. I didn;t think I'd have enough to pick up the stitches around the body so i had to improvise a little... so really it ought to be a 'Two Skein Wonder'. I guess I used more yardage due to the nature of the yarn.

And as promised I have a picture of the front of my Trellis Stitch Bag.

















dodgy photography... not uneven bag!

If you turn your head to the side you'll see that Darth Vader's shadow in on the bag... it's just a trick of the light...I'll never turn to the Dark Side... unless the Dark Side give free wool and needles and lots of coffee and buttons...

Lastly i have a lovely picture of some *new* stash- the lovely Hip Knits cotton I ordered on Monday! How quick was that!!!!















It's called 'Blossom' and looks beautiful... though it smells absolutely disgusting! I'm gonna have to air it out and perfume it safely- there's no way I can knit with something which smell ''sewery''- probably the dye.

I feel much better now- something worthwhile to blog, chille-con-carne for tea and getting away from blasted work!

Well... I guess I oughta try an early night... then again...

Early morning blog

Hey folks, I know this is early for me! I really just couldn't be bothered last night to post anything- it was such a horrendous day yesterday. Rain, walking around aimlessly looking for The Binding Site.... travelling with a so-called Immunology manager who has about as much spine as a jellyfish. Hmph.

Anyway there have been developments with One Skein Wonder but I'm ticked off about that as well! I'm praying it fits and I have to do the ribbing in another yarn because my One Skein of sari silk will not be enough. Hmph.

Ho Hum... I'd better get dressed for work hadn 't I and slog my guts out all day (as per usual). Maybe I'll feel better? Maybe I wont!

I'll try and post some piccys up soon... Hmph.

Corruption!

Well after all my promises made, I've been corrupted! not only have I purchased some more yarn (after all my stash enhancing over the last month!!), I've started another little project as well!

It wasn't my fault! Lovely comments on my blog drove me into buying the One Skein Wonder pattern from 'Glampyre' and then I kinda drifted onto HipKnits and bought some gorgeous cotton in 'blossom'. I saw the 'clover' silk and wished I'd bought some... then saw this beautiful cotton is similar colours.... I was powerless to resist!

I've finished side 1 of the trellis stitch bag. I'll put up piccys tomorrow and I'll show my progress on One Skein Wonder as well.

Unfortunately tomorrow I have to go all the way accross the damn midlands (kinda) to a company called 'The Binding Site'. I have to go along with the Immunology manager to have a meeting with the Binding Site guy about my honours project and screening trials for multiple myeloma.

I'll not bore you with the details but basically my honours project is riding on getting "ethical approval" from the local committee and the university. I'm hoping the Binding Site (who make the kits for the laboratory equipment etc) can shed some light on the trials done in Derby and whether it's feasible to use the trial for data and hypothetical improvements for the laboratory.

In that case I ought to be ironing posh clothes and going to bed (it would be nice to make a good impression!).

More piccys soon
x

Mmm...soft

Hey doodly do!
I've managed to finish a WIP! The Hip Knits silk tank is now finished. If I'd have put my mind (and fingers!) to it this would have been finished days after starting.... but all those new things...

Any how, here is a piccy of me wearing it (not the best, but with a webcam what can u do?)

I was breathing in as much as humanly possible for this picture!

The silk yarn from Hip Knits is sooo soft! Plain as it may be, just wearing it is a pleasure! I'm still wearing it while posting, I may need a helper to prise me away from it! Best of all, it only took two out of three skeins (dependant on weight:yardage ratio of course) so I have one left for something else! Silk is deceivingly generous on yardage so I tried to make something yarn-conservative; I'll know next time!

Also on the needles (and not growing particularly quickly) is a scarf for my sis Julia who is 40 on friday! Better get knitting! Though I have chickened out and bought M&S vouchers as well if I don't complete!

feather and fan stitch= simple but effective

The yarn is from Yarnwise on ebay and is excellent value. It's a littlebit more green in daylight but beautiful nonetheless! I was horrified when I got up yesterday to find it on the stairs with thr wool would around everything in the living-room, landing and PC room! While Pussycat doesn't play with wool, the loves the needles :o( Amazingly the knitting was still on the needles and un-chewed!

Also, I have bought some bag handles for the trellis-stitch bag I'm making in cotton tape and linen print. It was an expensive day yesterday as I went undie shopping and bought a little more besides...oops...don't tell the 'evil monkey' (darling fiance makes an expression like the evil monkey from 'Family Guy' when he's P'd off!)

Plastic but practical?

Whadya think? I reckon plastic is more practical (and cheaper) than wooden... we'll see. If they don't suit I'll take em back and buy different ones... for once I've kept a receipt!

If you have any other (easy) lace scarf patterns please let me know... though inexperienced with lace knitting I'd like to get better and move on from feather and fan and branching out is too recent to start another one!

Well thats it for now, I'm worn out without doing much today. Sunday Syndrome: the days passes like lightning leaving you tired, bewildered and anxious of tomorrow.

x

Mine, all mine!

Ok, here as promised is the booty! Luverly Lush, Amazing Amazon, Exciting Ebay and the Almighty Alpaca Spinner.

Well, starting with the best...














This is Joe Brown... isn't he just adorable! I have 800 metres (plus a little extra bit- a lovely gift from Linzi) to make something... now however do I find a pattern for this DK weight alpaca which is worthy?!!! It has to be something special and cherished. I'll have to wait and see... no rushing into a project with this one!

And the next parcel...















Here I have 8 balls of Rowan Cotton Braid in 'matisse'. It's definately my kinda colour and I loved the 'Cannes' top I made with Cotton Braid from the 'Beach Cool' book.... I may make another, however I love the look of some of the patterns from it's original book 'Cotton Braid Collection'.

Moving swiftly on, this is the 1st of non-knitting items: Lush! Maybe an extravagance but definately what is needed for de-stressing. I reccomend this stuff to everyone- particularly the sensitive and lovers of luxury!














There are a couple of things in the fridge, so I just photographed the easier stuff. I'll let you browse the site rather than describe... I'd be here forever!
In the fridge I have:
'Cosmetic Warrior' and 'Bada Bing Bada Boom'.

In the picture I have:

• 'Playdoze' and 'Hot Milk' bubble bar slices,
• 'Floating Island' and 'Ceridwen's Cauldron' luxury bath melt,
• 'Heavenly Bodies' buttercream,
• 'Sandstone' soap,
• 'Sakura' Bath Ballistic,
• 'Flying Fox' Temple Balm and
• 'Handy Box' (which was free!!!)
• I apologise for not linking the items... couldn't get the links to work :(

Lastly are the books I ordered from Amazon.














A friend at work reccomended the Phillip Pullman trilogy "His Dark Materials" which is comprised of 'Northern Lights', 'The Amber Spyglass' and 'The Subtle Knife'. I'm roughly 1/2 way through 'Northern Lights' so I'll let you know... but so far so good!

Also I bought Tom Holt's 'Earth,Air,Fire and Custard'- the 3rd of a sorta trilogy which I've already read the 1st two books. I'm running out of Tom Holt books to read as I've read a vast majority and have to wait for new releases!

At least if these can keep me busy til the 19th July I won't get too anxious waiting for Harry Potter! And yes it's pre-ordered! I never knew what the fuss was all about until last year... oh my had I missed out!

Well the reading will cut into knitting time but I don't mind as long as I prevent starting anything else- I've got a horrendous amount of WIPs again after last months stashing but never the less I'll get around to finishing them....eventually....maybe this month or the next... or event the next!

Oh and here's a bonus piccy of Pussycat... thinking she'd help me type so It's taken an age to get all this down with her so-called 'help'!
x












"Why can't I type mum?"

Oh I'm tired!

Well after a hard days work I motivated myself to go to the gym with a couple of mates from work. I'm not particularly fit and after the doctor told me I'm fat I have been meaning to go. So I did! GOOD: They didn't laugh at me. BAD:I feel ok now but I dread tomorrow morning and aching thighs!

I haven't done a great deal of knitting this week with tying up odds and ends but I have had lots and lots of parcels! I shall photograph them tomorrow as I am ready for bed and it's only 9:40pm!

I promise to show the goodies tomorrow! Honest.
x

Old MacDonald had a.....

Today I went to the farmyard!

Alex, my beautiful 1yr old niece and godchild, was having a trip to the farm today along with her parents Julia and Pete and my Mum and Dad and great aunt Josie. So after sunday lunch at mum's I tagged along too and probably had more fun than Alex did! After all... she's still quite young.
There were goats, pigs, shetland ponies, donkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, guinea pigs, rabbits, chinchillas and... a llama! I fell in love with the llama even though the poor lovie only had one eye :o( There were sheep too but they were shy and stayed in the farest side of the field. Hmmph....but I have loads of pics for you today!

That's Alex on the swing, the baby goats and the calves.

Lotta Llama, Alex's dad (AKA Pete the B.I.L.) and Stallion- a very lusty shetland pony!

Oh and thats my mum feeding the calves!

All these were taken on my mobile- not bad huh!

Well I've paid for my Alpaca now and Linzi from the Alpaca Spinner said she would post it tomorrow for me plus I've had confirmation of dispatch for the latest Amazon order I've placed... All those parcels...I'm so excited!!!

I've got just a couple more photos of latest inspirations... I was fiddling about with a stitch glossary and such and came across something called 'Trellis Stitch'. I made a teeny swatch from odds and ends... and voila an idea formed! Originally the idea is for me to make a bag with this new revamp of an old stitch... but who knows I may adapt it for a cardi!

test swatch

Bag swatch with Rowan Cotton Tape in 'swish' and Linen Print in 'peachy'

I have also bought some more yarn.. yes more!....from Fiona from beatties knit chat. It's lace-weight merino and she has some fabulous colours.. I put up the links on a previous post. Well here is the yarn, I plan to make a scarf for Julia's 40th (big sis) with the lime and blue yarn and maybe something for myself in the teal- I adore teal-y colours (as you may have noticed!)

What a fab Sunday! Shame I have another 5 days before the weekend!

x

Silken Stitches

Well then.... my silk from Hip Knits arrived on Wednesday. It's so lovely, though I had a bit of a shock when I opened the parcel. Instead of being 500g of silk in 'Reef' colourway, I had roughly 437g of 'reef' and 217g of 'sari silk'.

Apparently there was less than they thought and I had paid for it already so they topped it up with the sar silk as an apology.... lovely thought so I forgive them totally as I should have enough to do as I wanted (hopefully!!).
I'm hoping to make a vest top... I couldn't find a pattern for exactly what I wanted, so I've devised a pattern with a software demo which is great!

It's available in full package but I'm saving up to buy all the different little versions! It's called Knitware and is really neat!
Also, I have started the clapotis, but at the moment it really doesn't look like anything but I hope it will grow into a nice fully grown clapotis one day; it is only a practice run but nothing should go to waste!

Unfortunately i ended up wasting a whole skein of some other sari silk I bought from ebay :o( I was swatching up for different projects and unfortunately sari silk hates being ripped out.... ah well next time I'll have to be sure before unwinding the remaining 3 skeins.

Seeing as it's late now i suppose I'll go to bed.... lets hope tomorrow sees the sunshine again, the rain today was refreching, but lets hope it moves on!

I'll try and update my blog a little faster now, but I'm still puzzled about the intricacies of blog design!!! Still, maybe I'll be able to cadge a coupla lessons of my DF (darling fiance). Plus I'll get back to you on how well my stitch markers are doing!

Have a good weekend!

Yawn...

I really ought to be getting some shut eye fow work tomorrow but I fancied a bit of blogging. I'm afraid I don't have any exciting pictures, but I promise to take some soon.

I'm still reeling from the going to the doctors yesterday... damn cheek of him if you ask me. He wouldn't see me Friday so I had to take more time from work so I'd gone about my headaches (again) and he gave me 'Propanolol' which is to treat high BP and angina... I'm 21 and have neither.... also he took me off my anti-inflammatories and gave me Ibruprofen (known to cause stomach ulcer in high dose) and told me I ought to lose weight because it would help. I'm slightly podgy but I wouldn't say unhealthily so. Apparently I'm to take these until I get to see the neurologist at the hospital which could take months! Bloody marverlous. So tomorrow I'd dragging my ass to the gym after work... I don't like it but I suppose I have to be making the effort. If only so I can say that I have!

On the other hand I have started a clapotis. It's in 4-ply Soft('military') that I wanted rid of, but it'll be a practise run for a making one out of some lovely yarn which I bought from Fiona- a lady from our knitting circle. It gets weird with 2 Fiona's but we're getting used to it! I bought two balls of yarn from Yarnwise-her ebay store and they're a bargain! One is "blue laburnum" and the other "teal" (my favourite colour!).

I'm hoping that my silk from Hip Knits will arrive tomorrow... they did say they would despatch it on monday so I guess any time soon..? I can't wait to touch it!

Best go to bed while it's still tuesday!
x

Minty Fresh

Well hello there!

I've decided to take a break (again!) from the basketweave tunic to build up enough courage to pick up the stitches for the sleeves (another pet hate). So... I've picked up another WIP which is from the "Stitch and Bitch" book called 'Peppermint Twist'. Although the pattern is the same, I have chosen different colours and have named it 'Minty Fresh' instead!

All minty and stripy.... could be a toothpaste!

The yarn is Rowan 'cotton glace' (as in pattern) and I've used Rowan 'lurex shimmer' as a substitute for the Phildar lurex yarn.


Back of jumper

Another surprise I have for you is the beaded stitch markers I made. They're a prototype at the moment and I'll be goving them to my knitting friends to test em out and give me some feedback on the design etc. I'm hoping to make them as a sideline like the wraps but nothing big scale (want to keep them one-off if possible.) So whoever didn't get a test on Saturday at Beatties knit chat still have a present from me to come!

Sorry about the picture quality... must get a proper digicam!

So... thats it! I'll try and make some better piccys of the stitch markers and a picture of another little project I have on the go... but that's for next time! Keep em wanting more!! ;oP

Cravings!

Oh the Cravings!
I just had to give in! Especially since they put it in the sale! It was calling... begging me to buy it... and so I did!!
I'm on about the silk yarn from Hip Knits. I have hopefully just bought 500g of their 'surf' colourway.

Isn't she just adorable....mmmmmmm
I'm not sure what I plan to do... but a nice evening camisole would be nice...now just to find a pattern! Or maybe something else, who knows?

Well I've finished the front of the basketweave tunic now. All there is left to do is to graft shoulders and pick up stitches across the shoulder to start sleeves... a pattern where no sleeve inserting is needed in the sewing up! Heaven! I absolutely loathe sewing sleeves in!

Hmm... not much else to report on the knitting front. I took the afternoon from work to go and see my doc about my dastardly headaches only to be told he's only seeing his morning patients can you come back Monday... work are so going to hate me!

Seeing as it's late (ish) I think I'll read some more of my Tom Holt book "In Your Dreams" (sequel to "The Portable Door")... Hilariously funny fantasy without all the picky detail of Terry Pratchett. (links here are for Amazon)

Finally!

A finished item for the week!

I finished "Branching Out" tonight while watching Ice Age (great film!!!). I only used one ball of Rowan Cashcotton 4-ply but the scarf was just a perfect length!

Hmmm... who shall I give this to?....


Or does it just look ok on me?!

Well today has been a horrendous day at work! I can't believe that now uni is over again until October that I'll have to work a full week... and I've lost the will to live after 3 days! Ah well. Sarah from work bought my wrap and she was thrilled! I even got to test if it were washable after the cat thought it was her new blanket and got loads of hair all over it!

I guess I ought to get on with the basketweave tunic... oh the dilemmas on what project to start/finish/plan... I can't wait until pay day so I can pay for my alpaca!