Chasing the Sun

with the weather man/women predicting rain this week we went outside yesterday to enjoy a picnic in the backyard.

Amelia had fun wrapping yarn around a funny looking stick (more on that soon - I think it deserves a post of it's own)

It was nice to get outside (I even managed to do a little weeding while the kids were happy playing) and it is actually warmer outside than in our house!

I also started on another knit.  This time for me, more info soon. The red knit is finished - knitting under pressure and finished in time, will post pictures once it has been received.

Flea Market Finds

What a find - Buttons.  Mum and I hit the oppys this last week and I grabbed up some bargins. 

We happened to turn up on fill a bag of summer clothes for $1.  $1 - what a bargin.   Mum grabbed a few things that she could wear and then I helped her to fill the bag - she looked at me as though Iwas nuts (as the clothes that I was throwing in would not have fit me in a million years.  But I came home, buttons were unpicked and I have some new buttons.  Best of all there is more than one in each of the colour/size.  I have many buttons in jars - but struggle to find similar ones when needed.

For more FleaMarket goness head over to Her Library Adventures, she scored op shop gold this week.

A request for a Sherpa

My patient husband has finally received a knitted item.  Apparently it is his first (he forgot about the scarf that I knit him back in the winter of 2003) 

Baden's beanie from last year (I can't believe I did no blog it)

When I knitted Baden's beanie last year he fell in love with it instantly and requested one for this winter.  He sat and looked through Ravelry and chose the pattern that he liked and the colours.  He also requested for a rounded ear (not the point version) so teamed with all of this information and the new skill of colourwork I set off.

I dyed the yarn myself.  Base colours were Bendigo Luxury Cream and Stone 10ply with Landscape dyes. What fun to see how they turned out. 

Once on the needles it did not take me long.  I blame fairisle for that and the late nights that I pulled while doing this beanie - 'just one more row - another repeat' and before I knew it, it was on a had for a model shot.

There will be another of these on the needles soon.  Tim has asked for another to be made to give to a friend (who he is hitting the cold stuff with) but with the colours mixed around a little (The reason being so he can decide which one he likes the best- MEN!)

My Creative Space...

Life has been busy - does life just get in the way of living for you sometimes too?  I have no idea where the last two weeks have disappeared to.  So for those that have been wondering, there has been knitting happening and the hook has been hung up for a little while.

On the needles at the moment is an Olearia.  The latest pattern from the brains and needles of Georgie (aka Tikki) and what a lovely little knit.  This is moving full steam ahead at the moment and the needles have been smoking as I have to have it finished, blocked, dry and wrapped before 6.30am Sunday morning (so it can get a free ride back with Mum and Dad) in time for the 1st birthday of my niece.

I am not sure I will have enough time to play. But I purchased some sculpty and would like to have a play at making some buttons.  May not happen for this jumper - maybe another.

In other news, I have had Mum and Dad down for the week.  It has been nice although it would have been nicer if we had not have come down with the wonderful common cold that is shared around at this time of the year.  Hope that everyone is staying well and warm.
For more creative spots all over the world make sure you stop by and check out the ever growing list at Kootoyoo.

Oppy Finds...

it has been a while since I popped into the op shop.  After moving from NSW and the finds that I picked up while living there, I had been disappointed by the prices and what was on offer around here.

Yesterday I decided to try again.  Mum and I piled the kids in the car and went for a drive.  We only did one (have a toddler who is teething at the moment and he was not a happy chappy*) 

Anyway - I told the kids that they could chose something from the toy section - the sign that read 'all toys 1/2 price' got my attention.

We came home with what I thought was a little house.  Not that we needed another, but on further inspection it is infact a pet parlour.

We also grabbed a bag of plasticy toys - but for $1.50 who would leave them there. This is only a small selection of what was in the bag. Both of the kids have had a ball playing with them all day.  

*who also managed to get in trouble by the BOSS lady of the opshop - seriously - he is a toddler.  If I had of heard what she said to him (the term boss lady was her own) I would have not have held my tongue - well done to my Mum!

If you would like to join in - pop over and sign up at Her Library Adventures.

Something for me...

With all of the excitment around here, I keep forgetting to share this with you all.

It is a neck cowl and my finished knitted item from my Colourwork course a few weeks back.

It is lovely and warm and is calling to be taken on a winter holiday:)  I can dream - missing the snow fields and cold winter already.

My Creative Space...

is also the creative spaces of many this week.

A walk through the city streets to spot the yarn bombing and to see if we could spot what I had made. 

Amelia was the BEST finder of all things heart shaped.

Here are a few photos for you - I ended up taking 66 - but that is a little too many to share. I will try and put a collage together and upload it later.

 

So, what is this all abut.  The word on the streets is that the knitting nanna's have gone mad - but no.  It is part of I Knit Brisbane. I Knit BRIS is a large community knitting & crochet project intertwining & colouring the city.  Knitters and Crochet groups, individuals, Schools and others around the Brisbane area and beyond have spent months organising and working there little fingers to the bone.  A great effort and a wonderful feeling to be part of something so big.

If you are in Brisbane and would like to find some of these for yourself, here is a link to a little map of where they are. They will be in pace till (hopefully) the end of June.