Dyeing Day

I finally found all my dyeing things from the move, and I've committed to selling wool and maybe (hopefully) cushions at a market at the end of Jan.
So these are my efforts for today.







Seems like such a lot of hard work, for not that much in the form of results!

But at least its about 1kg of wool dyed. I'm happy with some of it - but not so happy with the large skein of 8ply. Its felted a bit which is disappointing. I have another 2x 200g hanks, and I will have to break them up into 100g lots. 200g is too much to dye on my pot.

But a couple of them are awesome!!! Love about 4 of them. I'm having trouble getting a limey yellow, and pinks. So a couple of them have been dyed over.

In amongst this is some Treliske that I received in a swap. It was dyed bright red and blue, and was just never really my thing, so I over dyed it, and while I'm still not all that happy with it, I wil at least use it in its current form.

I have about another 1.5kg of wool left to dye, so I will probably try and do that next week sometime, and definitly aim for some subtle colours. These are very colourful!!!!!

Hamish's first birthday

Twas a bit remiss of me - My little man had his pretend first birthday before we left Oz - here are the photos.






He had a lovely time. Stuffed that cake in his mouth like I have never seen a kid stuff! His grumps (Shane's Dad) thought it was wonderful so that was nice.





Pressie wise he got some cool toys, his first Tonka truck(s) and trailers, and some neat clothes.
We didn't have a party on his actual birthday a month later, but thats OK. We sang Happy Birthday to him lots of times....

Clapotis almost halfway

I'm getting there....






I'm using Noro Silk Garden Lite 2028 (I think.... it might be 2030) and I'm probably 40% of the way there. I think I've done 6 repeats of the straight knitting section, and used about 3 balls of Noro so far.








I'm not actually all that happy with the colours, which is a shame. The wool is a bit inconsistent too, which sucks. I have a few ends tat will need to be weaved in at the end, cause I haven't bothered to learn how to do nice ends within the knitting. Oh well.
Lots of thick bits, thankfully no thin bits, lots of vege matter and only 1 knot in the middle of a ball. I am a bit funny about my colours, so I am actually working pretty hard at keeping my repeats the same.

Hopefulyl it will be finished in a month or so.

Pawprint Cloth

I'm going through a dishcloth phase. I made this the other after visiting Spotlight and buying up on some of the Yarn Bee products that were there for about $1.50.

Its mercerised cotton and I used 2 strands.



Bit of fun :)

Freaky head

I have a new computer. Its very nice and it has a webcam on it :) Yay!

So I am almost at the stage of getting back into knitting and posting, but to try out the photo thing, I've posted this ridiculous shot.

Hahahahaha!!!!

We are here and on broadband!!!

Yay - broadband finally installed and hopefully blogger will be a bit nicer to me now!
Hopefully......

Anyway, we are all settled into the new house, well we are in here, not sure there is much settling going on!

We have a new cat called Dermot - a silver tabby burmese who is just gorgeous! The house is OK, but needs a lot more space for all our stuff. Never mind - time will bring us the dream house.

Blogger just doesn't like my photos. What am I supposed to do about this???

Hmmm

Update

Hi to anyone who reads this.

I haven't dropped off the face of the planet - we have just relocated to another country so things are a little crazy at the moment. Also I have to update my software I think as blogger no longer accepts my photos anymore. Very frustrating! I am going to use firefox I think for Raverly, so I might see if that is happier with blogger too.

Needless to say, that will all have to wait for when I get broadband and we are in the new house. 3w or so.

I downloaded iTunes the other night, and it took 2.5hrs!!!!!!! And then my new iPod wouldn't work anyway as the operating system on my laptop is too old, so I have to wait until my new iMac is set up at the new house. All a bit frustrating.

So there it is - I'll be back!