Finished objects

I decided, on Friday last week, that it would be nice to make MIL some socks for Christmas. So we went and picked out yarn. There were two choices in my local yarn store… and I got busy knitting. Here is the final product, finished this morning.
and being modelled
They turned out quite well. [...]

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Christmas update…and 6 weird things

One of the things I love about this area is the prevelance of eucalyptus trees – I know that they are feral pests here, but they really remind me of home. This is one of my favourites
That piece came home with me after the photo shoot and is currently gracing my dinner table.
Christmas Eve [...]

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The Tourist Thing…

Yesterday we took MIL and her husband for a drive. We went to the top of Sir Lowry’s Pass, and looked at the ocean, Gorgeous Man’s mother picked up some lovely wood carvings from Malawi and a stone carving from Zimbabwe from the sellers who are set up at the top of the pass.

Then we [...]

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A button

I finally bit the bullet yesterday and bought some buttons to truly complete my finished objects. I hate sewing things up, so I’ve only done one item so far, 2 more to go.

This yarn is from Starfish, she was my pal in the Favourite Colour swap I did in the middle of the year. [...]

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They’re here…

Mother-in-law and her husband arrived safely on Friday, and the curtains were finished. Gorgeous Man picked up the hooks on the way to the airport and hung them when he got home with his mother, so we cut it close, but I wasn’t sewing them when they walked in the door.
The Carols by Candlelight went [...]

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Just a quick post

My mother-in-law is arriving tomorrow afternoon so I don’t know how often I’ll be able to get to the blog while she is here. On the upside, we’ll be doing the tourist thing with them so I’ll get to visit some places I’ve been before and some new places. We probably won’t go with them [...]

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Clarification…

Just to clarify, I’m not pregnant: dude from yesterday was just a rude, stupid, middle-aged man who happened to offend me with his comments.
I am such an enabler, I really can’t help myself. When I met Simone at the beginning of the year she was knitting scarves, since then she’s made two hats and [...]

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um…

Choir was interesting last night. I seem to have established myself as the resident knitter. I was arranging my music – we have a new order for the last two performances for the year, when most people came in. At least ten of them asked where the knitting was, one woman actually asked for the [...]

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A pair of socks!

We had our inaugural braai (South African for barbecue) on Sunday. We broke in our new BBQ with a small gathering of friends and a lot of food!. Since the men cooked, I got to sit, chat, drink coffee and work on thisI think that in my joy at finding self-striping sock yarn, I may [...]

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Unexpected bounty

The first Christmas cards from Australia arrived today, which was very nice. It’s lovely to hear from old friends, most of whom have been pretty slack this year since we’ve been away. It always interests me when you move away from your friends, sometimes people you don’t expect keep in touch really well and others [...]

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