The weekend

I’m going to be taking a break from the blog for a week or so. I need to hibernate from the world for a while and get myself together both physically and emotionally; I had a miscarriage on Sunday.
I was about 7 weeks pregnant and we were just waiting on the second ultra-sound before we [...]

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Some more differences

We ate out last night. Gorgeous Man had a faculty meeting and it ran late. I finally got to try the Thai place that we wanted to go to on my birthday. It was gooood!! Gorgeous Man had beef with ginger and noodles and some other stuff (his had a slow burn to it) I [...]

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There’s been some knitting going on…

There’s been some knitting going on, but quilting is on hiatus until I recover enough energy to turn my mind to learning something new like needle turn applique.
Not really much to post about. Somebody stole Spring and we are back to cold, wet, grey weather. Great knitting weather though. If only I didn’t need to [...]

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The blanket is finished! (almost)

The big news is that I have finally finished the baby blanket that I knitted as a gift for a co-worker. The colours aren’t quite this dull in real life.
Now I just need to wash, block and weave in the ends.
Speaking of blocking, I have a question: when you knit lace does it need [...]

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Weekend plans

Gorgeous Man is going away for work this weekend and I was planning to spend a lovely quite time at home catching up on sleep and quilting and knitting and my journal, which has been sadly neglected since I started blogging…
But, I forgot that this weekend is the recording date for the CD. We are [...]

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Just a quick post

Just enough time for a quick post today.
I started the final ball of yarn on the dreaded baby blanket last night – note to self, don’t make large projects for co-workers or acquaintences. So it should be finished soon and I can get back to the quilt and finishing the charity sweaters.
I had a great [...]

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No time to be creative

Life is pretty hectic here at the moment, and apart from plugging away at the blanket I haven’t had much time to be crafty. I’m feeling a bit frustrated, because I really want to be working on the applique quilt, but am too tired in the evenings to concentrate on learning something new.
I went out [...]

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Hermanus

We went out to Hermanus this Saturday and had a picnic lunch on the foreshore which was very lovely. Hermanus is a whale watching centre and during winter the whales come very close to shore as they migrate through the bay.
We saw quite a few whales, some blowing spouts of water into the air, [...]

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Knitting progress

Thank you all very much for you kind birthday wishes. We went out for dinner – I wanted to try the Asian restuarant in the mall, but unfortunately it was closed for a private function. So we went to Spur instead. Spur is, apparently, the all South African family restuarant. Which is odd, because when [...]

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My green thumbs

I completed the first appliqued shape for my African animals quilt last night and it was less than a success. This was my first ever attempt at needle turn applique and I, well see for yourself,
I had a bit of trouble with the points. Good thing I’ve got a whole fat quarter of this fabric [...]

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