Sunday 12 December 2010

Can I Stop and Breathe Yet?

The Year 10 Social went off well and the end of Year Dance Concert. DD very pleased with all. She helped teach some Baby Boppers this year and worked very hard on a solo routine which brought me to tears.

So just getting through the work stuff and 2 Christmas parties next Saturday to go.

Shopping well have been avoiding it, finances are tight and really don't want to buy on credit so trying of thinking of low cost but nice presents. That's where knitting comes in and cooking I think. Did buy some Billie G Cookie dough and Christmas cake mix which should arrive by Friday. One of my team at work's little 4 year old girl recently got diagnosed with leukaemia so we did a fund Raiser for Red Kite as she said they most supportive with day to day things. So if you get the chance to donate to this cause please consider it. As for the cookie dough, it's GOOD.

Thinking of them daily as cannot image how hard it would be, sad news last week, even though little Jayde has improved heaps and had gone into remission early, the final news on the risk level came through as the highest level which is only one percent of cases caused by if I remember rightly a mutated chromosome. This news when she was getting back to her happy little self. The only sign had been a hard tummy. So if your the praying kind, if you could add a word in for little Jayde and her family.

OOH and thanks to Jan for the SS6SC2011 link on your blog(see badge to right), what fantastic idea for a sock club

Friday 10 December 2010

2 Snow Caps Done




Off to England they go. Working on Namaste Socks now , very quick project.

20 FO so far this year and took a couple of months to get started, must be getting faster or more obsessed (think it's the latter)

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Get Some of my Life Back Today

DH got his licence back today YAY. Hopefully this will mean I won't be running back and forth so much between everyone and trying to make it all fit, I am so over it. He can get stuck into helping DD get her hours up for her licence.




Embossed Leaves Socks completed Monday night. Heel is quite different to what I'm used to with heel flap edging being garter stitch. It was easy to pick up stitches though along this edge. Pattern called for cutting the yarn once the heel was turned. Didn't like the idea of this at all so just knitted across the foot and continued across in pattern and made the required extra stitch at the end of patterned section with no issues at all. Toe was different as well ending up with only eight stitches which thread yarn through and pulled tight, nice not to have graft toe. I also learnt rib cast on, I was all fingers and thumbs and I reckon it took me two hours to cast on each sock but it's also a nice finish with the 1x1 twisted rib cuff.

Next socks will be for my brother. In the meantime have started Louet Snow Cap and hope to make 2 for my young 3rd cousins who are moving back to the UK from France. Given the weather we've seen in the news should come in handy. Have to get cracking though to get them there by Xmas.

Then I was going to do stirrup socks for my niece, but like the look of Namaste Socks a bit more fancy. Another Christmas present