Tis the season

First I really must show some goodies that have arrived recently.

From my secret pal all the way from Australia - some wonderfully soft wool, sweetly smelling traditional soap, chocolate with coffee, and a bookmark of the Harbour Bridge as well as a sticker with a kangaroo.
And look at the bag they came in - why dont we have bags like that over here ?



And my pal also sent me a postcard of the sheep with lots of wool (memory not what it should be, cant remember his name)

And I got some other sheepy stuff for being a good girl and not going to Ally Pally.

You might need to click to read the card - so true !!

I've not grown the sheep yet, time and motion problems....


Thank you secret pal and not so secret friend (sock yarn was wicked, and will be on the needles before the end of the year...)


And now some season fruitfulness...

And while I was clearing up recently I found this - it still needs to be finished after several years sitting in a bag. It was going to be a cushion but now I need to do some more edging so it can be framed...

Designed by Elian McCready.







And the shawl from the last post was the Autumn mystery shawl from Goddess Knits.

Here it is sitting the churchyard, not easy to photograph as it's rather large...

Yarn is Colinette old DK in sahara colourway.



I've been busy since my last post, doing lots of knitting ans sewing in ends, all will be revealed soon.

I went to Get Knitted on Saturday and met Rain and Terri and sat and spun on Sue's comfy sofas for most of the day. Rain brought along her friend Steph who has only been knitting for a week and brought more yarn than the rest of us ! It was so good to see such an enthusiastic new knitter and I look forward to seeing her blog and what she makes with the pack of yarn she went home with !!
I was good and only came away with yarn with a purpose, which I'm not sharing as most were for presents...

Parcels and Purchases

These are my Rowan exchange presents, knitted by the lovely Carol.

A lovely sea lettuce scarf with matching lavender pouch, helping to keep me relaxed whilst studying.

And a sheep tape measure that I'm not going to let






Ruth (who sent this little lot) see....


This is a not so subtle hint for me to do some spinning.... And when I finish reading my books I'm going to allow myself half a day with Morris..









And I seem to be good at taking blurred photos at the moment...

I got some books at Exeter...

Hot Textiles is by Kim who shows at ICHF shows, and is on my wavelength....

Crochet toys - you need to look at it - there are lobsters, walrus and the cows drink milk...






And I've been wanting to buy some of these for a while...

From Jolly Red 'A Gardener's Bottom'

and ' Line Dried'

Very silly but had to be done...

The only yarn I bought was for a swap and to knit for a friend - how good is that !!

And I managed to confuse Anna on Web of Wool by buying lots of her clover yarn cutters... mainly for volunteers who thought they were wonderful.

And now I'm going back to my books - random fact of the day - plants can get sexually transmitted diseases...

Strange knitting

If anyone was waiting for a parcel from me then it is on the way !! (And that includes Peter)

Thank goodness there was no one else in the post office - six packages later it was still empty..

Now I just have to sort out the emails I owe and then I should have finished playing catch up.

This is not my Rowan Exchange present.

I would have been happy if it was, but it is a thanks for waiting parcel...

The socks that rock is on the needles already..

Scarf is from the latest Simply Shetland book (I was a lucky girl and got it for my birthday)

And this is the back of some strange knitting...

I always said that I would and here are the first of my knitting underwear for display at Harrogate show...

It has caused a lot of amusement, people ask me what I'm knitting and then discuss - there was someone in a sausage queue last weekend who said she would wear them if they were available..

I'm off to the NEC tomorrow (if I can wake up in time, tablets are making me very dozy) and I will be knitting 'smalls' on the train, that is unless Plisse wants to come on a journey (nice brother, doesn't have to buy me anything for Christmas now...)

And I got called sensible today - I was buying a 70's knitting and crochet book in a charity shop and some cards with snowmen jumped into my hands - I thought my shopping was far from sensible (there was also something with sheep on it...)