as I have found a delicious pattern for a baby girl .... I had a little rose button on it originally but decided to pop the gingham one on instead.
And I've made my new pair of boy bootees two toned - I just love these buttons - a Trademe purchase.
Issie loved this part of the garden - I say loved as alas it is no longer - this corner was turned into our vege garden last weekend!
Hmmmm - I wonder which won out in the end ...
The first roses are just coming out ....
My Mum had this little pink one growing higgledy piggledy all over and through the bottom of her garden and she called it the Sweetheart Rose. When she passed away 3 years ago I decided to plant one in her memory and discovered it's called Cecile Brunner. It has the most exquisite perfume and, as you can see from the chimney photo, it's a very vigorous climber! In hindsight we may not necessarily have planted it in the best spot!
And we finally got our vege garden in - after removing a huge flax, copious amounts of river stones and a ghastly weed mat that had left the soil looking rather sad and sour - so we chucked in a few bags of compost and away we went..
And of course you can't possibly work in the garden without Isabella's help although you'd think by now she would have realised the difference between a stone and something edible ...
Words I never ever thought I would be saying considering how much I love winter and how cold orientated most of my knitting is. However like everyone, I too am sick of the changeable weather - you dust off the summer sandels and dresses and go prancing out one day in all your spring finery only to be back in the winter drabness the next.
Have just finished a little cardy for a friend's baby - just a little something to slip over his shoulders while the mornings and nights are still a little chilly. I wanted to use garter stitch and amended the pattern appropriately but then worried the whole time I was knitting it as I thought it looked too big - silly me as it fits perfectly! And he looks gorgeous in it - the red is perfect for his colouring as he's quite olivey. I think I get so used to tiny little bootees and beanies that anything bigger just looks huge.
Isabella wasn't sure whether to attack or do roly poly's so she did both - multi talented that one ..
It's very, very unusual for me to have unfinished projects on the go but as you can see, I've excelled myself. So far I have half a pair of bootees, an unsewn up pair of men's fingerless gloves destined for England, ditto the pink pair of mitts, plus other versions of the mitts still being knitted, let alone sewn up... This represents about half of my "stuff" to be done/finished.
Among the items I had finished are these bootees using my now favourite pattern but it wasn't until I had them out on the bench ready to take photo's that I realised there was something wrong with the pink ones .....
It's a bit hard to tell from these photo's but they are different wools and colours !!@#$% So 2 more bootees to be added to the "to do" pile.
However I did manage to finish these little ones to go in my Felt shop.
This 'now it's spring and now it's not' weather has completely confused our darling Issie. This weekend she hedged her bets with half of her on the blankie and half not ...
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