Blog is getting a little bit neglected!

As always seems to happen in the spring and summer the blog is beginning to get neglected as sunny days take me outside to the garden.

See!!! - We've tidied up the back corner of the garden and put a lovely big deck area in for evening sun.  it's 4.5m across the back, and 3.7m front to back, and makes the garden suddenly seem huge! - We've got to put some new fence panels up at the side as my poor neighbours fence is a little dilapidated, but that's ok, and I think I will also use some of that nice bamboo screening (or willow, or brushwood maybe) .  I feel it's just crying out for bright floor cushions and quilts though, don't you? It's a lovely place to sit in the evening already, even just in this chilly spring sun. Once i get the chiminea up there, or the firepit - I may never come in! ;)

I've also bought a little bit of new yarn, and more importantly (or rather more unusally) some FQ's to make a quilt for a friend who is having a baby,

Here it is all layed out cut into 5" squares. I've changed the layout quite a lot though, cos ...... well I wanted to! and also because it's going to be a disappearing 9 patch (or whatever else you want to call it, there seem to be a lot of names) So I changed some of those red middle squares as I didn't want all  the tiny squares to be red - I want it to be "scrappier" than that! And when I cut the 9-patch-block into 4, I'm then going to mix it all up again...... so really the above photo is absolutely nothing like what it will look like! LOL


In other news, the F1 season has started, so that's all good fun! And British Summer Time has begun today, which is playing havoc with my tummy - I have no idea when to eat! ;)

Right I'll try to blog as often as I can, but if I'm not, you'll know I'm snoozing in the garden instead!

Cold today

Gosh it's really cold here today - I think i've been spoilt by the nicer weather we had had this week so far! - today it's really very very chilly!

So to warm up the atmosphere a little, here is some spring! ;)  Just in case we all forget what it feels like.

It's all about the finishes lately. - Happy!

Happy is the colourway of these gorgeous socks in fyberpsates sock yarn.  The pattern is Charade (ravelry link)

Aren't they just "Happy"?

Finished Mitts

Just a quick photo of my finished mitts. - One of the reasons I needed to choose my March challenge yarn was to encourage me to finish these!

Pattern: Northman Mittens
Outer knitted in Drops Karisma, inner in Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK

Right, really need to get on with some work now!

March's challenge is chosen!

Well March is upon us (not sure really if it entered as a lion or a lamb - dry, peaceful days - lamblike, but bloomin' freezin' - lionlike??) 

Anyway, back to the point - March is here, so I have been able to pop up to my everso special stash room (well a couple of plastic boxes in my spare room, but I love it) and choose myself my next personal sock yarn challenge. They're all wrapped in old post bags and the like, so when i pick one I never know what it's going to be..... This month, I scored...................

Fyberpsates sock yarn, in colourway "Happy" (ooooh yeah baby - very happy!) and the pattern is Charade.  I need to finish the thumb of one mitt first, then these are on the needles!

Meanwhile, I have found a Saturday evening rock n roll radio station, that I can listen to on my iphone using the tunein radio app.   Bernie Keith on BBC Radio Essex - Splendid! - Bright socks, and songs to dance to in them (when they're made)- What more could a girl ask for?