Monday, April 26th, 2010
The days seemed long this weekend. That doesn’t often happen. For once there was little planned – one airport pickup, one long early morning run, dinner out with my husband, a walk across the field to the farm to buy salad and eggs, but otherwise a blank diary, an unstructured weekend. It felt strange. The […]
Lazy days
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Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Today is a glorious lazy spring day. My mother will arrive from England this afternoon. Thankfully the planes are flying normally again – although we did enjoy the quiet when they weren’t. It’s nice not to have any ‘will she, won’t she’ stress about her arrival, although there is bound to be a little stress […]
at peace with the world…
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Last night and today I’ve been pressing on with the Retro Ribbed Turtleneck (from the Green Mountain Spinnery) using the Sylvan Spirit yarn – does it look familiar? Such a nice yarn to knit with and I just love the colour. The jury is out on the pattern – it’s a very different style for […]
Sweaters and plans
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
I’ve had such fun working on the Winter White schnibble pattern from Miss Rosie’s Quilt Co over the last couple of days. It includes a clever way of making the flying geese and was really a super-quick easy project which went together easily. Now it just needs the outer border and it will be done. […]
Winter White Wins…
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
Today I had one of those days where life got in the way of creativity. When I finally did get a little time to myself to get started on the next quilting project, well wouldn’t you know, I was spoilt for choice and just couldn’t make up my mind…. I have got as far as […]
A dithery day
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