Socks, Beads and Signs
Whoosh! Winter is almost over and it’s August already! I remember my grandmother telling me when I was a little girl that time seems to pass faster when you’re older, and one day I’ll think 5 years only a very little time (as compared to then when 5 years was ages and was a good proportion of the time I’d been on the planet). Bless my Granny, she wasn’t the wisest person I’ve ever known but she wasn’t wrong about that. And when you’re busy time just passes even faster.
Winter Sock Club has finished (the last instalment went out earlier this month), three new sock patterns, three special colourways and lots of goodies to find. It’s still good fun and I’ll be doing it all again in Summer (January). The lineup:
From left to right: Mandorla, Nightingale and Taimi.
I managed to squeeze knitting camp into the start of this month too. I love camp, it’s so relaxing and this year we looked at bead knitting. Yarn + sparkly things = awesome. My project (a toddler’s cardigan with beaded yoke) has been halted because I’m short 12 beads in the current colour. I’m sure I managed to spill at least 12 beads into my work box and on the floor so I’m trying to find them. I could concede that I need to buy another string but I’m not quite there yet.
With sock club over it’s time to clean up and deal with the things that get neglected whilst that’s in play. Mostly it’s boring paper work and trying to get more dying for the site done. I know I have an office under all this paper and yarn somewhere. I’ve got a sign now, in case I loose my way en route to the front room:
A good friend grabbed it from a building scheduled for demolition for me.
In other news: I’m now a proud Majacraft dealer. I’ve got demo wheels coming and I’ll put details on my website when they are here and I’m ready to serve Dunedin spinners.