some woolly goodness but a lot of coughing.

 Hi

We are slowly recovering, Ian has returned to work but is exhausted when he gets home, and I've found that my cold has just left me feeling blaaah during the daytime.

However, I did left the house and visited my favourite cafe on Tuesday to meet up with some other knitters to put the world to rights.

Knitting this week has been headbands, three of them in assorted hand spun yarn. The dark brown is wensleydale / zwarbles and I love the feel of it.

I finished the Shetland / Dorset and a small skein of unknown white.

A pressing problem is the mounting number of small balls of yarn left over from projects. The larger ones will make mitts but the smaller ones need a project.

If you ignore the embroidery cotton, there sre almost 2 kilos of yarn here, I'm thinking maybe small squares for a lap blanket? maybe 8 inch and 4 inch depending on how much yarn is in the ball. I've had a play and may sort the yarn out later today into mitt knitting amounts or smaller.

I'm now on week six of the stitch along and I've even started square number 6 which is unusual as I normally don't touch it until Friday.

We cancelled our trip to Yorkshire for new motorcycle boots and instead had a couple of hours wandering round a local town.

If anyone has any other ideas for the very small amount of yarn, please let me know xx

Speak soon.

I'm back but not firing on all cylinders

 Hi,

I'm back, survived the heavy cold, survived living with a covid suffer (just) and currently still feeling a little under the weather and moody.

I eventually picked up the knitting needles and added a hat and mitts to the pile of knitting. Does anyone else save up their sewing in of ends until they have a bag full? I do this and then take them to the coffee shop and spend a morning chatting, exchanging gossip and finishing items off.

My plan is to do this tomorrow as we have a couple of nice days forecast so I can get things washed and blocked.

I've been washing my spinning as I go, and I am slowly building up stock to knit with over winter. I have plenty of washed fleece to process still so it looks like I will be busy. White skeins may be dyed at a late date, I'm leaving my options open at the moment.

(these skeins are colour coded with waste yarn, so I know what they are)

Confession about the two stitch alongs, the cross stich one is up to date, I'm just about to start week five which is the current week.

The blackwork one needs some love or putting on the back burner, I've yet to decide which.

Having cancelled my last two trips (fibre festival and return to the framework knitters) we are taking a day trip to Yorkshire soon to sort out some new bike boots and hopefully a weekend away sometime next month.

Thats about it for now as life is just a bit quiet but we are starting to plan a couple of road trips for next year so it will get more interesting x

Speak soon xx

Quick update

 Hi, normal service will resume shortly but I've been ill with a bad cold for the last week and missed the Bakewell Wool Gathering ( not covid, tested negative) and Ian went away to a bike rally rally the same weekend and has today tested positive. 

Totally a plague house at the moment, little knitting has taken place along with some stitching but to be honest I just haven't had the energy to do much.

I leave you with week 3 of the tiles SAL almost complete, week 4 dropped earlier today so that may be todays project.

Speak soon xx

Autumn is here

 The leaves are changing colour and its definitely getting cooler. The heating is not yet on but we have switched from salads for most meals to cooked meals and the kettle is definitely getting more use.

I finally finished the holiday washing, all bedding and towels etc repacked ready for the next trip out.

Evenings have been spent knitting and spinning so most of the holiday fibres have now been plyed and washed ready for labelling and a further 200gm or so prepped and spun.

 The wensleydale x zwartbles is interesting, quite a few short cuts unfortunately and the sun bleach tips break off easily, so care is taken whilst combing. A lot of waste but this is mainly down to me being quite particular about what I like as a spinning fibre. These two are ready for a wash and soak once I've finished my coffee.

The grey hat is finished, washed and will be on its way to a new home soon. Another hat is on the needles and sat by the armchair ready for a few more stitches later tonight.

sorry, not a brilliant photo

On the cross-stitch front, I have completed the first week on both SAL and will start the second squares later today.

Thats really been about it for this week, take care, speak soonx