Sunday 19 February 2012

more fleece...

I did promise not to buy any more fleece.........I did promise to try and spin what I had stashed away.......But.....

small shetland fleece

small shetland fleece

small shetland fleece

I suspect that these tips may give me some grief.

Thursday 16 February 2012

New spindles

Hi, tonight I visited my good friend Wikkidknitter and found him busy making spindles....aren't they pretty :-)
spindles by wikkidknitter


spindles by wikkidknitter


and yes, I came home with one of them to play with!!

Saturday 11 February 2012

TAST 2012 week 2 and 3

I'm having to play catch up at the moment so here is week 2 buttonhole stitch ......

tast 2012 buttonhole stitch

and week 3 feather stitch

tast 2012 feather stitch

both are atc size, apologise for the poor photos but brain foggy due to having a cold :-(

Nottingham Light Night

Its that time of year again, time to freeze in the city centre whilst watching the pretty lights. But this time it was a little different as hubby now plays with Nottingham Ukulele Orchestra and they were performing in the shopping arcade under the council house. I am full of cold so the prospect of wandering round in the sub zero temperature did not seem particularly attractive so I spent my time split between spinning with my drop spindle whilst watching the guys play and warming up in my favourite branch of Costa :-) I did manage to snap a few photos though.

nottingham light night 2012
The council house had a makeover

nottingham light night 2012

mirrors shone in the trees

nottingham light night 2012

nottingham light night 2012



nottingham light night 2012

houses changed colour

nottingham light night 2012

nottingham light night 2012

chocolate lace was being made ( I have suggested that maybe they could have real lace being made next time)
nottingham light night 2012
we had marching bands

nottingham light night 2012
culture box singing and dancing
nottingham light night 2012

and, of course, the Nottingham Ukulele Orchestra
nottingham light night 2012

Sunday 5 February 2012

Snow joke,

 
We attended the annual Round Britain Rally (motorcycle event) presentation dinner last night at Conkers in Leicestershire. This year there was a small invasion from a rather different type of wheel.

Yes, we are slowly taking over the world !!


The fun and games really started when we tried to get out of the car park, So glad that we weren't on the bike.

some people had to dig our theirs cars and then we discovered that automatics don't like the snow! This is the third attempt to get out of the car park for this one.

however, once on our way we had the motorway to ourselves.


and it look really pretty this morning :-)

Saturday 4 February 2012

Clutter Monkey!!!!




OK, think I may be spending the new few days sorting out this.....


or I may disappear under a mound of books and fluff, never to be seen again!!

Will be back once some sort of order has been reached :-)