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The Last Post

This post is to say I ammoving where I blog, still Blogger but a new address. http://yummymummyknits.blogspot.com/ my new blog is up and running...seee you there!

How Terribly Naughty!

Huh! I have not blogged for nearly three months! Where has the time gone! What has been on the needles? I finished m Lornas Laces Fandango socks, they are ankle socks and knitted out of just 50g of yarn. The other 50g I sent to my lovely friend Daisy as a cheer up present. It was my birthday in October (a whole 23 years old!) and my Mum bought me membership for three months of Natural Dye Studio Sock Club Yarn. The first moth I got a gorgeous skein which was all peaches and pinks like a dawn sky, out of which I have knitted my Mum a pair of socks for Christmas, and therefore have no photos to share! I hen got a skein from my Get Knitted sock club, a skein of Lornas Laces in a blue, yellow, green colourway, from which I have knitted Anthony a pair of socks which are all wrapped up for Christmas. I then got a skein of yarn from Natural Dye Studio in blues, lilacs and hints of pinks, like a twilight sky. I have not knitted anything with this yet. I got my final skein from Natural Dye Studio this week, an extra special yarn made of baby alpaca, silk and cashmere in a mint green, fluffy and gorgeous. I cast it on as soon as I got it. I am knitting myself some socks in 2x1 rib. I got another Lornas Laces skein this week in red, forest green and gold, very festive. Well, that's the knitting. I have been working a little bit, doing a caring job again, just fitting it around Michael and Anthony for extra money fro Christmas. Just one week to go and we are all excited at Anthony having his first Christmas. So Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!

Destashed!

To my despair. I have destashed. Not completely, but almost! My Mum came to stay for a few days whilst the husband was in hospital having his collar bone pinned and plated (did I mention he'd had a motorcycle accident three weeks ago?!). I gave all my yarn to my Mum. A lot of it was admittedly acrylic yarn which I had started and used partially for small toy projects etc. There was a fair bit of alpaca and some Patons Essence and a bit of Shetland. Mum has been sorting through it (and no doubt rolling around in it too!) and has come to the conclusion that her six boxes of yarn she has stashed under her bed, which also probably holds the bed up, plus all my yarn I have given her, is waaaayy too much and she will eBay some of it and give the proceeds to my little Anthony. Talking of whom! He is desperately trying to crawl and has two teeth! I am hoping to get my new computer by next weekend and will try and blog lots more. I am also hoping for a HDD camcorder for my birthday at the end of October, so we may be blesses with videos too! The socks are going superbly! I have just finished knitting the heel on the second sock and am working my way done the foot! October is the deadline as that's when the next lot of Lorna's Laces arrives from Get Knitted! I have been completely surprised though! I got two 50g skeins sent to me as part of my sock club membership and thought to myself "this amount of yarn will knit one pair of averagely sized adult socks and I have whopping size 9 feet, so if I make the top shorter (almost a trainer style sock) then I will have enough yarn for a longer foot?!" Well, after knitting the first sock I had only used 1/2 a skein approximately. So I may have a whole skein left by the end! The next pair will be longer in the leg, for sure. Watch this space!

And The Knit Goes On!

I'm knitting! I can't believe it! I've actually found time to do two things this week. Knit and iron! I love knitting and wish I did more of it, but haven't had time since I had Anthony. I used to hate ironing but have found a new passion for it. I just love ironing Anthony and my clothes, its satisfying to look nice. And what about Michale's clothes, I hear you say? Well Michael is professionally trained to iron to a standard much higher than mine for Queen and Country, so he does his own! So what am I knitting?? SOCKS! Not just any old socks either. 4 PLY SOCKS! And I'm doing them on 2.5 mm DPN's. so they are real 4 ply hand knit socks, not my cheats DK socks, or 4 ply yarn knitted on 3.75 mm DPN's. Nope. 4ply yarn, 2.5 mm DPN's. And do you know what? It has taken me two years and three months to do it. I kept attempting them and giving up. But its official. I have turned the heel and am knitting! What has brought me to do this, you ask? I joined a sock club, commitment. Get Knitted Lorna's Laces twelve month sock yarn club. Every two months you get two skeins of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock Yarn to knit a pair of socks. How cool is that? I get two months to plod along on a gorgeous pair of luxury socks. I received my first two skeins just four days after ordering (with the weekend in between). The colourway is called Fandango. It's lilac, violet, petrol and pink colours, like an oil spill with no green. I love it! I actually joined the club so I could knit lots of socks for Anthony, but I don't think pink is his colour. I know lot of people with little girls too of a similar age to Anthony, but in all honesty I am way too selfish to share my yummy yarn with non-knitters who don't always appreciate hand knit items as much as yarnaholics. So I bit the bullet and am knitting a pair of socks for me! I have been looking at other sock yarn clubs to join too. Does anyone know when the Socks That Rock club registration opens? I am also looking at The Natural Dye Studio Club, they have other clubs beside socks too, and Fyberspates. Any other that anyone knows of would be great, drop us a line! I love KraftyKoala yarns and have dropped her an email to see if she would start a club, I'd be the first to part with my money! Maybe if we all bombard her with emails asking the same, she might do it? Anthony is doing really well, by the way. He is now 27 weeks old and weighs 19 lbs 6 oz. Here he is having a snooze after a journey in the car.

And having a treat, a frozen ice lolly made of baby apple juice, as a soother for those sore hard gums.

A Dear John Letter: To My Yarn

Dear Yarn,

After much thought and pondering I have decided to sort you out for good. You have been in the back of my mind for a while and stored away in vacuum bags and now I think it's time to part ways. I love some bits of you and other parts not so much. I have decided that we should part ways and will be evicting you to eBay. I feel it's time for a clean out. You, my darling stash, have grown wildly and I feel I will never be able to utilise you now that my time loving you and knitting you has decreased, due to commitments elsewhere. However, I will be hanging on to all the fond bits of you dear stash and parting with those bits I no longer require. I hope to find you a loving home with some fellow knitters and eBayers. Thank you for all your wonderful colours that have brightened up my days and the endless nights of passion I have had rolling in yarn! (LOL).
Your beloved stashmeister

Kat x

For anyone who thinks I am mad, I am. I am actually going to part with some of my stash. I will be eBaying it over the course of the next week. My ID on eBay is katcaf1985. Please tell your friends. Thank you x

Where Have I Been?

I thought I would give everyone a little update. I have been so so busy with remortgaging the house for a better deal, cleaning up after Anthony, having a little short break in Norfolk and working my way through masses of laundry! I have finally ordered my cross trainer and hopefully my weight loss will get back on track this week, as I'm not doing so good this week having been away and all! The hubby has gone out for the morning looking at motorcycle gear as he takes his test next week. The joys! The knitted is safely tucked away in the corner as I really haven;t had anytime. We have acquired half an allotment from a friend who couldn't manage it all on his own and so have spent quite a lot of time digging the 500 square feet by hand and we're not finished yet! The dogs have had a little holiday too at the kennels and Anthony is now a whopping 17 lbs 14 oz and 24 weeks old! So time is flying past!

Chocs Away!

On Saturday 5th July, Anthony and I went to our first airshow. The Royal Air Force Waddington Airshow, and it was amazing! We saw apache helicopters, chenooks, The Vulcan, E3D's, Lancaster Bomber, Spitfires, Tornados, The Typhoon Eurofighter and The Red Arrows. It was a poor start to the morning with some bad weather, but the sun came out in the afternoon.

It was quite a noisy afternoon, but Anthony says he didn't hear a thing?! Too busy being an Air Traffic Controller!

Ta Da! Pictures!

As promised, here are some pictures of all the things going on in my life right now. Anthony is now 18 weeks old and last week when he went for his weigh in he was 16 lbs and 8 oz! Big lad! He is doing wonderfully and enjoying all the food! However, we have discovered that he isn't keen on swede and doesn't seem to tolerate butternut squash, it makes him grumpy and sicky.

Oh and he's taken to sucking his thumb as part of his teething, his Dad blames me because I'm a sucker too! And here we are on a nice day sat on the patio together.

I have started his little cabled v-neck vest, but its quite slow going. Here it is only nine rows in. I have worked out that I need to complete approx seventy six rows to make it nineteen centimetres to the sleeve shaping bit, I think?

On better weather days, which are few and far between, we have been out in the garden trying to maintain it a little and working on the veg patch. As you can see, there are a few weeds in it at the moment due to bad weather and lack of time. We are growing potatoes, onions, carrots, more onions, spring onions, beetroot (before they got eaten by a plague of slugs) and lettuce. I also have more veg patch dug over ready for next year which I am going to fertilise and nourish with my homemade compost from my garden composter. I am also going to make sure it is 100% weed free before I plant in it.

I know the fencing looks rubbish, but it keeps Poppy off the garden, so I don't mind! I am also growing cabbages and tomatoes too!

I can't believe how well they have grown in pots and the tomatoes are shooting up really tall now too! I didn't have much luck with my tomatoes last year, so am really pleased with this years crop. Watch this space...

And here is the first of Anthony's socks, I was going to start the second one on Saturday at KnitLincs, but I didn't make it to Lincoln as I had a headache. Boohoo.

And now I'm popping off again, so I will leave you with one final picture of Anthony sleeping.

Summer..Here One Day...Gone The Next

Mwhahaha! It's Friday The Thirteenth! How scary! Where has summer got to? It seems to be here one minute and I am outside digging the veg patch getting vest top strap marks seared into my shoulders and the next I am hunting out Anthony's vests again and bundling him up for a little walk to the shops! (sighs) It is England after all. So...the knitting. I am working on Anthony's heathery coloured cotton socks, one down, one to go and guess what, I have no pics of them yet...I know...I'm rubbish! But the first one looks nice and I plan to start the other one tomorrow at KnitLincs. I have also just started a cable V neck vest in Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino. I love this yarn, however unexotic it is! I have knitted with the chunky version before, a gorgeous baby blanket in petrol blue. This time it is a lovely shade of Teal. This is my first big attempt at cables, so I expect it to take a while, hence why I am knitting it in size 12-18 months. Anthony is only 4 months old and is already in size 6-9 months. He's a strapping lad! So these will be my WIP's for now. I don't want too many projects on the go, I don't get enough knitting time as it is! So there you have it, a little update and I promise some piccies soon!