Busyknitter

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OK, it works really well except that I can only do one picture per post. Looks like I’ll still have to use Photobucket for posts with more than one picture.

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Hopefully I have managed to connect my Flickr account with this blog. And here is a progress picture on the shawl (any readers also on Ravelry can see what else I’ve been knitting lately – I’m busyknitter there as well)

is something I am rubbish at (maybe because i am not very skilled at photography generally)

Here’s an example.

Well, it’s not very good is it? Anyone able to give me a few tips?

All the same, I am very excited about this project. I am making the wild flower shawl from the Posh Yarn website (scroll down the page), using posh’s Arabella lace yarn in bright barbie pink!

Here is a picture of the Baby Surprise Jacket that I finished a few weeks ago.

And here is the new one that I am doing for a friend’s baby’s first birthday

Which is putting my lacy sock project on hold. Here is the one that I have finished.

The past six weeks have been a bit busy, to say the least. Things have calmed down a bit, so I guess it’s time to get back into the blog. Here are some of the things that have been keeping me occupied.

-Work, work, work, work, work. I won’t go into detail (this blog is about my real life after all…..) but the past few weeks have been consumed with the preparatory phase of a Seriously Big Project. We get a little break for a few weeks, so it’s back to just doing the day job for a while.

- My choir had it’s summer buffet concert.

- I knitted my first Baby Surprise Jacket. Does anyone know any surprise babies needing one?

- My beloved (but admittedly rather knackered) old wooden Adler treble recorder finally gave up the ghost. It split in four places. So I have finally succumbed to the world of recorder consumerism and am now the happy owner of a Moeck Rottenburg in Palisander from the rather wonderful Early Music Shop and a Moeck Tuju in maplewood bagged on Ebay. I’m playing them in now.

And I had two holidays at half term!
-For the bank holiday weekend, T and I went on a specialist weekend for autistic families organised by Through the Roof. It was just so relaxing, and fun. T was looked after for much of the weekend by the incomparable Vicky and had an absolute ball. I mostly sat around drinking tea and nattering. Which was just what I needed, given that the deadline for all that work I’d been doing was lunchtime on the day that the holiday started.

-We got back home on the Monday evening and on Tuesday morning, all four of us set off for the wilds of Ardnamurchan for what turned out to be the first successful family holiday we’ve had for four years. Define success? Well everyone enjoyed it and we didn’t come back thinking that it would have been easier to not bother taking T away from home. Nice weather, too.

And Mr. BK went to Poland and brought me back a picture of JPII as a present! And S did his Year9 SATs. And he had his 14th birthday. And I had to go to a beancounters conference that night so missed it. And T had his annual statement review – all presented on the smartboard with the lad doing cute and clever things like buying bananas in Sainsburys or parallel playing with a classmate.

Socks for my Mum

Thought it was time to establish my knitting credentials. I have been knitting on and off for over 30 years now. My first effort was a teddy bear that I made in junior school. I have knitted sweaters for myself over the years, but I’ve been moving gradually towards smaller projects (I have completion issues…..). Teaching myself how to do socks at the moment.

I don’t tend to keep finished garments, they usually end up as presents. But here are a couple of my favorites that I have kept, both knitted for T.

Just a quick post to satisfy those good folks at the UKnitters Blogring. Not much on the site yet I know, but I’m only a beginning blogger. However, I have been knitting for 20 years. Currently making an aran sweater for my 3-year old in Rowan Designer DK in an absolutely gorgeous deep purple. It’s one of those yarns that’s been lurking in the stash for years, waiting for something good enough to use it on.