Busy Scarving

Up to working on # 17 & 18 scarves now. Not all ruffles as want a variety  Have been busy with that and getting ideas from the internet, my head is swimming now. Will post some pics when can get them, raining and miserable again here.  

Took Mum to see Love Never Dies today - brilliant!!

Two More Scarves

Another ruffle scarf, this time with Mode Vera Fishnet Fever, $6.00 at Spotlight and as good quality as any other. Thought I might actually try to knit a ruffle scarf with normal yarn , so found the Amazing Curly Scarf pattern here. Only 16 rows but ended up with 1280 stitches to cast off, took over two hours. Now to try a crochet ruffle, hopefully not as painful on the hands.

The pink is pinker in real life and there is purple among the browns in the second pic, if I wait till I can get decent light, I'll never post any pics especially with our weather here

More Results, more good news

So after nearly a month of tests, It seems the numbness in my finger and arm was probably due to a pinched nerve by tension in a muscle in my shoulder. I now also know I do not have a problem with arteries in my neck, my upper spine and neck are OK, my nerves in my arms are ok and apart from benign lumps in my thyroid  and a couple of extra ribs ( both common) all is normal. Thank Goodness for Medicare that I could have all these tests without cost and thorough doctor.

Finished my 5th ruffle scarf, this time with a generic yarn more like ribbon , didn't even have a name in English on it, just that it was knitting yarn, did have diagrams on how to knit it though.

Would load pics, but this new blogger format won't do anything when I press the "choose File" button on my tablet :-(

Good News

Got results back from a biopsy on a lump on my thyroid they found when doing tests to try and find out why i have some numbness in my finger.It's not uncommon for people to have lumps on their thyroid, but when they are over 1cm , they like to do a biopsy, mine was 1.1 cms. Most lumps are benign so it was unlikely to be bad result but weighs on your mind just the same. So got the all clear today. Consequently wasn't feeling the cheeriest last Thursday so decided instead of comfort food i would get comfort yarn. After a success of the first ruffle scarf decided they would be good mother's day gifts for my DD's godmother's. So dropped into the Wool Inn on my way to the car after work and bought two more balls of yarn, 2 different types. Then went what the heck I'll go down the road to Lincraft. There I bought another 8 balls of yarn to make ruffle scarves, of course about a quarter of the price, quality yet to be determined. So with that success headed to the other side of the shopping complex to Spotlight and bought some more ruffle yarn and some other fancy yarns that were on special, as my thoughts had extended to cushions as well as scarves for my stall i've been thinking about. So the godmother's scarves are done and now working on number 4 ruffle scarf.

My First Ruffle Scarf

My favourite purple with gold,was in spired to make this after attending a small market in St Marys on the weekend. There was a stall there with the usual baby stuff knit and crochet which was all lovely but has a limited appeal these days I think. So my thoughts have gone to scarves, berets, fingerless gloves etc. So with the euphoria that the creative moment brings went off to the Wool Inn Penrith and was confronted by masses of ruffle yarn. Been thinking of a few of these as gifts,so thought would try out one for myself given there was some yarn in my absolute favourite shade of purple. Has taken two evenings as seems a bit fiddly to start but with 7stitches and just being garter stitch is very quick. At the beginning was trying to get as close as possible to the edge of the tape which isn't necessary . So thoughts are of a little stall of trendy accessories, we'll see. Missed Super Macro Sunday,caught up thinking of ideas for the stall

Sunday Super Macro

With inspiration from Cathie's Wordless Wednesday, I've decided to do Sunday's Super Macro , a picture taken with the Super Macro Setting on my camera

2011 comes to close

So we've had heaps of rain and now beautiful sunny weather not too hot, but enough to be inudated with ripening beans, tomatoes, lettuce, spring onions and capsicums to name a few. Flowers blooming everywhere, baby birds chirping in their nests. Had a quiet but nice Christmas, followed by visits from a cousin from the UK and my brother up from Wodonga. My capelet coming along nicely although a bit of frogging has been done. Now up to pleats and only another 160 stitches to increase by to a total of 463. Wishing everyone a great 2012, especially those who been faced with loss and adversity in 2011, may your path be smoother and worries less