How Long?

I can't believe I have not posted on here since April!

Last year I was always moaning that as a family we were so busy, we used to run out of time. Within the last five days it snowed so heavily schools had to shut and my DH was stopped going out to work. We have not used the car as it was too icy to move it. As we have not had to rush to work or school, we have taken the time to just chill. It has been a fabulous start to the New Year. We have walked more together as a family and have spent time with the children in the park watching them sledge down the hill. We were frozen to the bone by time we got home but I would not have missed their faces for the world. I have, therefore, come to the conclusion that I do have time. I have sixty seconds every minute, sixty minutes every hour, twenty four hours every day, seven days every week - you get the picture! Time doesn't change. It ticks along at its own steady pace. It's my life that changes. I do have time...it's what I do with it that is the problem...

Talking of time, here are a couple of little friends that have been enjoying the snow - both are free patterns on Ravelry and both take no time at all to make ;)

Great Giveaway!

Pop over here for an amazing giveaway! Go on, you know you want to!

Munrano Silver

Fallen Angels...read on!

Due to the determination of two very special ladies from the old AY Forum, we now have a new home to go to!

Phoenix Knitters

They are hoping all the old AY Forum users will find there way there...and of course there is a big welcome waiting for anyone just wishing to pop over and say hi!

See you there!

Goodbye Angel Yarns...

T'would appear that Angel Yarns Forum has ceased to exist...it is a very sad day indeed.

Some finished bits...

I joined the "Finish it or Frog it" on Angel Yarns the other day...so, may I present, at last, a few finished items!



Robin's Egg Blue Hat and Ruffles Scarf for my dear daughter made lovingly with a pair of mitts to match her hat. Aaah I hear you say, how lovely! Alas it is with deep sadness that all is not "aah" as one week later, the darling child, who begged and pleaded with me to make her a set, lost a mitten! I know, I know, what is a Mum to do?

To redeem herself tho' she has been busy finishing too -


Sirdar Bigga Bag made on a Sunday afternoon. I helped with the sewing and plaiting of handles, a job my daughter has not yet mastered! She, however knitted the bag.

Web of Wool Simple Bag pattern - again, I just finished it off, she did most of the knitting! We bought some gorgeous orangey pink glass beads from the Creative Stitch Show in Brighton last weekend...30 beads for £1.50! Utter bargain!

Finally, my first ever handspun yarn! A long time in the making. I was able to spin the roving having mastered the basics of my drop spindle but was terrified of plying the two lots together! I finally tried last week and I think I was pretty sucessful! What do you think?



I was thrilled to have spun enough to knit up into a pair of fingerless mitts for me! (There are two, I promise and no, I won't lose one!)




My Lady Eleanor would have been complete within the next couple of days. She would have, if I had not spotted one the rectangles was facing the wrong way! It took me all afternoon and the best part of last night to rip it back. Tapestry yarn is not very forgiving when you go wrong! She will be done very shortly...

Hidden Treasures!

I was clearing out the loft yesterday and found something that brought more than a tear to my eye. My Mum, as you know, is a very talented lady in the art of knitting and crochet. My Dad was also a very creative man.

I found this young lady in a black bag thrown into the back of the roof above. Who is she I hear you ask...well I shall tell you. She started life around twenty five years or so ago (when I was fifteen years old or thereabouts - maybe younger) printed on a piece of material. She was, lovingly, cut out and stitched together, by me, using my late Grandmother's hand operated Singer sewing machine. She was then brought to life by a bag of kapok stuffing and dressed.

I remember it was my Dad who set up the sewing machine and who helped me complete this project. It is my Dad I shed a silent tear for now looking at her. It is this young lady I will re-stuff and bathe and who will now have a life in the light and will not return to the dark depths from which she has just been rescued...she will be another reminder how lucky I am to have and have had such loving, talented parents...thank you both.



(Captain Spaulding looks on...)

I also found these which I made for my daughter when she was three or four years old. She will be thireen in February...Santa, minus a cuff as my Mum pointed out...



and Cinders who is a bit topsy turvy and a bit worn and bobbly around the edges...

Take a square...

and make a bunny!



Hoppy New Year to you all...and to you Dad, wherever you may be watching from...love you!