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Nearly there!

April 24, 2007

Well, I'm finally back with knitting to show, and in the spirit of something Carolyn posted about a few days ago I refuse to apologise for my absence! Hooray! Ahem, here is what I have knitted:

This is the last piece of the Sublime sweater. I can't remember off hand whether it is the front or the back, although I have a suspicion it's the back, and will therefore take a teeny bit longer than the front. The point at which I took the photo (and I haven't done any since!) is when I finished the penultimate ball of yarn. Will there be enough left to finish? I know, the suspense is pretty amazing. Either way I'll probably take another few weeks to actually finish and by then you'll all have forgotten I was even knitting this jumper!

I also got some ribbon for this jumper - I've been knitting this since new year so its been a long time since I showed the original sketch, so here it is again:

I need ribbon to thread through eyelets all around the middle, but also to make little bows and sew them on the sleeves where the mohair joins the merino. I had to buy 2 widths, because I didn't know which would be best:

I have looked in lots of shops and couldn't find the inky blue ribbon I wanted, but I hope this shade will do.

So, last push on this jumper! Basically I've been scared I won't have enough yarn to finish which has been making me ignore the issue (and the jumper!), but I guess it's time to face up to it and just finish the thing.

Posted by jen at 06:18 PM | Comments (10)

Bringing you my favourite photos from the last 2 weeks

April 16, 2007

I'm afraid I'm still continuing with my abject refusal to put photos of anything crafty on my craft blog! This is because I'm knitting something that I might show later, but am leaving secret now to keep my options open. And also because the weather in the UK has been spectacular, and I've been doing lots of fun things and taking photos with my film camera. I promise the crafts will be back very soon, but photography is kind of crafty anyway, and certainly pretty!

Let's begin with Easter! My Dad's hot cross buns, which we glazed with left over caramel from the butterscotch cake I made for my mum:

They were the best ever. This is the Bullring in Birmingham, I like it a lot:

I walked by Clifton suspension bridge at dusk, it is one of my favourite things to photograph:

Some friend's came and we went to the zoo, no animal photos here, but one of the flower beds instead!

Forsythia always makes me feel Springy:

In fact, I'm feeling very cheerful in this nice weather, I hope it lasts!

Posted by jen at 08:20 PM | Comments (9)

Nothing to do with anything

April 10, 2007

Sorry, I totally lost the will to blog for a bit there. I was very busy for a couple of weeks, then very tired, then sick, then at my parents. Also, even though I have been doing some crafts, I just couldn't be bothered to take photos and write about them. I'm a bit bored of taking dark photos in a dark flat, and not being able to show my stuff properly.

What I have done: I knitted both the loopy scarves using the Colinette fandango, but gave one away with taking a photo. The other one is still waiting to be posted to it's new owner, I should really do that!

I made little chocolate cornflake cakes with mini eggs on top for easter, to take into work.

I made 3 cakes - a chocolate courgette cake (translation: zucchini), a rhubarb polenta cake, and a butterscotch cake, all of which were for other people, but I managed to sneak a slice from all of them (obviously after I'd given them!).

And you have to imagine all of that because I took no photos at all.

But I did go to London and take lots of nice sunny photos, on a film camera, which I have scanned in and am going to show even though they are nothing to do with any crafts at all, simply because they look far nicer than any crafty photos I would have taken.