A bang and a flash…

Today is a wonderful day, the sun is shining and I can see the ocean in the distance from the slopes of the mountain on which I work, but for the last week or so Cape Town has had terrible rainy weather. Many of the informal settlements have been flooded and people are saying that [...]

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A jazzed up baby blanket

When we graduated our last crop of students they surprised me with a gift. I was somewhat surprised since I wasn’t stopping work just then, but they explained to me that some of them were leaving and so wanted to give me a present for the baby. It was very sweet. The gift contained some [...]

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No finished objects, I got sidetracked by a certain young wizard…

I got a fair bit of stuff accomplished this weekend, but I was like a butterfly flitting from one project to another – socks, intarsia sweater, African animal quilt, and baby blanket.
Then, on Saturday night we picked up our pre-ordered copy of a certain book that was released with great fan-fare on Friday night (Saturday [...]

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A hole in the wall and still more animal photos

We live in a security complex. It’s not as secure as some complexes – we don’t have guards on the gate or anything like that, but our little collection of houses is surrounded by a side wall (with spikes on top) and a back wall (with electric fencing on top). Earlier this week there was [...]

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The latest sock in progress

The sleeves on the baby sweater are finished and cast off. The shoulder seam is sewn and now I need to pick up the neck and sew it all together. My least favourite part of knitting.
Here is the latest sock in progress.

The pattern is Yukon Leaves and the yarn is Opal Tiger (bought locally!!). I [...]

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Elephant photos

I had my ‘girls only’ pre-natal class last night, where we learnt what to pack into the suitcase to take to the hospital. (I think I’ll be asking some of my experienced friends if they actually used everything that we are told to bring…)
We are still not comfortable with the childbirth educator and are tossing [...]

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Weekend

We had really good weather this weekend, it was still cold, but it was nice to see the sun. I worked a little on each of my current projects:
* animal quilt
* intarsia sweater
* cardigan for charity
and began a new project, but there isn’t enough progress on any of them to be worth showing photos.
I’ve decided [...]

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Some more animal pictures

Thank you for your encouraging words about my little quilt. I’m hoping to get the bulk of it pieced this weekend.
I worked on a little red cardigan for charity last night, got the back finished and the left front cast on. I seem to have lost the picture that goes with the pattern, so I [...]

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Quilt layout and some elephants

Firstly, I must apologise to the person who arrived here yesterday after searching for “I need a pattern for a 4 ft police car” I don’t know how you ended up here… but then, I don’t know why you would need a pattern for a police car either.
Last night, while watching 4 episodes of Prison [...]

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I rock (apparently)

We had our monthly check-up with the Ob/gyn yesterday. The offspring is currently lying head down and now weighs 1.1kgs (2.42 pounds), a little more than average apparently. This is good news as it means that if the offspring does (God forbid) decide to make an early appearance it has a “very good prognosis” now [...]

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