September 26, 2010

Sweet peas & poppies

I've never tried growing sweet peas before so this year I put some in with the veges, and they've just started to bloom in the most beautiful soft colours.
 I'm having trouble uploading pics on here so there's more to come on flickr.


Ranunculs

Sparaxis, poppies and anemones


September 25, 2010

Winter projects

Over the winter I've made a few bits and pieces that I haven't gotten around to putting up here yet. But today is grand final day and my significant other is very much otherwise occupied, so what better time to put a few photos up?
These lacy cable socks aren't as hard as they look- there's no cabling at all, it's just an 8-row repeating lace pattern. I found it in a book called "Knitting 24/7" by Veronik Avery which has some great contemporary projects that you can knit without thinking too much.

Berni and I tried 'knitting in transit' on the train for the first time and I took these along with a photocopy of the lace diagram - I'm not quite ready to memorise lace patterns yet, but at least I didn't get train-sick.



Here's my phone pouch..



... and an ipod pod