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Category : Craft, Movies, Books & TV, Stuff, Tatting
Tags: Australia, ireland, knitting, knitting loom, knitting nancy, my fair lady, rex harrison, sick, Tatting
As the wonderful Rex Harrison said (not sang) in My Fair Lady, “I knew that she would do it, and indeed she did!”
Yes, as you can see from t
he pic here my Innocent Knitting Nancy has proved successful and I now have two little smoothie hats to show for it. Truth be told I am rather chuffed with myself. This is also the first things I’ve knitted since I was a child and definitely the first projects I’ve ever finished in knitting – yay me!
In other news, Siobhan came over to keep me company this afternoon which was lovely. I’m about 50% through the bracelet I’m making Mum for her birthday (yes I know, late) and I feel as sick as a dog. Even opted out of knitting meet up tonight, am going to go to bed – soon, I promise. Ireland doesn’t have the range of cold and flue medications that you can get over the counter in Australia, so my standard approach is to take an antihistamine, nurofen plus and drink copious amounts of water. Even so, I expect to be out of action tomorrow too – my face feels numb, my shoulders and back are aching and my nose is running like a tap. I’ve been hit quite hard!
I hope that I’m the only one and that you’re all feeling well – good night!
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Category : Craft, Geocaching
Tags: bewleys, charity, event, Geocaching, hats, innocent, knitting, make, service, smoothies, Tatting, tension, yarn
First up, last night’s Cache ‘n’ Coffee event in Dublin for the geocaching crowd went really well – we had visitors from the US, Germany and Latvia join us, which is just fabulous and in all about 20 people showed. We were quite noisy but it was great to see people. Am looking for a new venue for the next event, not entirely happy with Bewleys who are so inconsistent with their service and cannot cope with us at all.
Aside from that, I’ve been busy creating hats for the Innocent Smoothie charity thingy that’s on here – where each bottle sold that has a little knitted hat on it means money is given to Aged Action Ireland, a worthwhile charity organisation. Naturally I’ve been tatting hats and they take about an hour to do one in a nice DK weight yarn.
However, it dawned on me while away last week that an old fashioned Knitting Nancy might just do the trick, so when I got home I set about creating one – out of a butchered Innocent Smoothie bottle and some cotton buds. It looks the part, however I soon found out that there’s a problem – I have no idea how to use one! My first try was abysmal, but I think I had my tension too tight, or maybe my gauge is wrong. Now, do I go back to the drawing board and change my design, or do I try again with a looser tension? Not quite sure at this stage but I have all day to figure it out as I’m home with a rotten head cold.
he pic here my Innocent Knitting Nancy has proved successful and I now have two little smoothie hats to show for it. Truth be told I am rather chuffed with myself. This is also the first things I’ve knitted since I was a child and definitely the first projects I’ve ever finished in knitting – yay me!
