The Bucket List

the Brisbane bucket that is...

We are on the move again - I am up to my eye balls in removal information and paper work at the moment + add in schools this move and there has been very little blogging and craft time happening.

I am going to start making a list - The Brisbane Bucket List.

Out and Wild:  Daisy Hill Koala Sauntury, Botenical Gardens, Mt Coottha, Beach???, Strawberry Picking
Carnival of Flowers
City Living:  GOMA, Picnic at South Bank, Riverfire,
Holiday: Rainbow Beach, Harvey Bay, Home

Eating:  Montrachet; eccobistro; Urbanerestaurant; The Crosstown Eating House

Catching up:  CM girls, all the wonderful friends we have made here.

If you have any ideas for me please let me know and I will add them - I already think that we need a posting back so I can do them all:)

Promise that I will get around to  commenting, crafting and blogging soon.  There will be another list coming in the near future, the: 'things to make to keep us warm' list.

loving...

 time and patience...
not worrying about anyone else or what was going on around her.  One foot infront of the other. Shuffle, Shuffle, Shuffle.

 confidence...
Round and Round and Round she went until she gained the confidence to head out on her own. watching this little girl get up the courage and head out with all of the others (many of whom were a lot bigger than her)

 friendship...
it makes my heart sing to see this little girl make such lovely friends  (picture was snapped just moments before they both fell on their bottoms - two five year old's on skates helping each other, not really certain how much help they were to each other)

 and to get back up again when she came crashing down.  A few hours of one on one time with this little girl, while a friend watched Baden (thanks Dee)

 and for the hugs that I received when we returned.

Linking up with PaisleyJade and her Things I'm Loving Meme

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.-soulemama

In my creative space...

...I am creating a rainbow today.

The colours are devine and is making me want to knit and knit some more.

 It is Crystal Palace Mini Mochi and I think that it is the softest wool I have ever knitted with.  This scarf will be the first to make it's way into the Christmas Present box (if Amelia doesn't claim it before then)
Mini Mochi is available from Yarn Over for those that may be interested in getting themselves a little colour onto their needles or hook.

For more colourful and creative spaces grab a cuppa and hop on over to Our Creative Spaces.

Jennie has also featured a little of my creative fix it skills on her blog today.  Lucky me, three mentions on her blog in a week.  
And one of my knits is featured over at Ingrids today (I am a popular girls today) Thanks so much girls.

The gift that keeps giving... and a pattern

When Baden was a new born I received a little knitted cardigan from Kate.  Kate had received it as a gift from Taphophile and thought that it was just too good to have sit in a cupboard for Martha Moth to find and enjoy.

A beautiful hand knitted and hand dyed matinee cardigan that he wore alot before he grew out of it's size (and I failed to get a photo of him in it)

Once he had grown out of it I went to give it back to Kate and was told to pass it onto another friend who was a knitter or would appreciate such things.  So the journey began.  It travelled to Albury and then over to the US.  It did a stint in England before it returned back to Australia and then over to Germany.  It has finally found it's way back to us with the tiniest of holes.  No one is to blame, except the fact that this little cardi has been loved and worn and washed and finally it has just come apart at one of the ball changes or wet felted points and there is not enough for me to fix it.

I popped it into the 4ply yarn box.  The colour of it was just too good to throw away and I had plans of changing it into something else.

The time came over the weekend with the invitation to a baby shower.  I frogged and knitted a little beanie at the same time.

It was received with love and care for a friend with the story of what was a cardigan that became a beanie.  I will leave it up to her if she keeps it or keeps sending it on its way (which I think she will do) as she liked the story so much and doesn't want it to end.

Live on dear cardigan (June 2007 - July 2011) and look forward to hearing where you travel in the form of a beanie (2011 -    )  Thinking that I need to get my hands on the matinee cardigan pattern so I can start another and send another out there to create another story.

The pattern:  I have knitted this pattern a few times. It is nothing new or special - basically a rolled brim beanie with an umbilical cord, minus the roll.  I can not stand the roll on beanies for little babies (finding that they roll straight off of little heads with the amount that they wriggle)  So I have created a pattern for a ribbed brim.

Yarn:  4ply Baby Yarn  (a great sock wool stash buster)
Needles:  3.25 mm (I used Double Pointed Needles)

Cast on 80 stitches.  Join in round being careful not to twist, place marker.
Rows 1 - 6:  knit 1, purl 1 around.
Row 7:         kfab.  Knit around.

Optional  Row 8:      Change colour and knit around
               Row 9-10: knit around

Continue in pattern established in rows 8 - 10 or
knit in stockinette stitch until length from cast on measures 3.5inches.

Start decreases:  *Knit 7, K2tog   (repeat around)
Knit 1 round
*Knit 6, K2tog (repeat around)
Knit 1 round
*Knit 5, K2tog (repeat around)Knit 1 round
*Knit 4, K2tog (repeat around)Knit 1 round
*Knit 3, K2tog (repeat around)Knit 1 round
*Knit 2, K2tog (repeat around)Knit 1 round
*Knit 1, K2tog (repeat around)Knit 1 round
*K2tog (repeat around)
Knit 3 together x 3times onto the same needle.
Knit an icord until it measures 1 inch.  Thread yarn through and weave in all ends.  Knot the top and block lightly.  Wrap and give as a gift or pop it on the closest newborn head.

As I said - it is not a new idea - just a few different things that I do.  I will Rav link it when I work out how.  If you knit it please let me know.

Things I'm Loving

I never seem to remember to do this post before the linky stops me.  So here goes.  Joining in with Paisley Jade's - Things I'm Loving Fridays  Yes I do know that it is Saturday.


Loving this photo of Miss 3rd Girl Posie, taken on Thursday during our knitting/crochet session.  She is using her toes as tention to help pull her french knitting through - so cute.

Loving that teaching the four of them also gave me the confidence to teach Amelia.  She has been asking for ages if I could teach her how to knit and I keep telling her when she is 6.  Her sixth birthday is quickly approaching and I know that my Mum has a little sewing/knit kit ready for her, so there will be nothing standing in her way.

Loving longer days and sun shinny afternoons. A picnic on the front lawn,  'restuarant'  style during the week, complete with wattle cuttings and milky tea.

Thie joy on this little girls face when she came out of Acrobatics today and told me that she did a handstand.  (I was a sneaky Mum and took a video through the window)

Wonderful feed back from a friend.  We traded services.  Haircuts for Knits (not the creepy crawly variety either!)  Here is the beanie that was requested for a friends 40th birthday.

Hope that you are all enjoying a wonderful weekend.

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.-soulemama

I know that these posts are meant to be word free - but it needs explanation.  

This is a photo of a tent in our backyard.  If it was warmer out there I know that there would be two little people who would love nothing more than to sleep out  in it.

This is a photo of them inside it reading stories with torches before bed.

(Not sure how much reading was occuring?  But they were having fun and lots of laughter and lots of "Don't shine it in my eyes" was occuring)