Chain of events...

So Steph noticed the sale at Stash and she fell to the tune of 4 balls of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran. And she blogged about it. So Alison fell for 10 skeins of Noro Blossom. And she blogged about it. So I fell for 10 balls of Debbie Bliss Cathay and 8 balls of Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk. After all, it’s much better to get a whole sweaters’ worth of yarn rather than just odd-balls – right?

Anyone else want to browse round their sale – go on, you know you want to…

A new hat!

Chevron Lace Beret by Katya Frankel (from Magknits) made with 100% cashmere sent by Vikki from her etsy shop for the UK Swap.

Oh, and if you’re a praying person – our church desperately needs prayers right now.

A very random hotchpotch

Well, Sareth tagged me, so here goes:

The rules are:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So, 7 facts:

1. I love eating frozen prawns – if I don’t put a few into a little pot I could easily eat a bagful.
2. My favourite word is “sift”.
3. I always panic slightly when everyone is introducing themselves in a group in case I forget my name and what I teach by the time it gets to my turn.
4. Now that spring is pretty much here, there’s nothing I want to knit more than a great big squooshy jumper/cardigan.
5. Magic Loop is one of the most annoying techniques ever…
6. ... apart from using two circular needles – why? Why? WHY?!!! Dpns are just lovely – once you’ve tamed the porcupine he stays tamed.
7. On Fridays we have home-made oven chips, fish and peas, followed by icecream. It’s easy and everyone likes it.

I’m not going to tag anyone, but if anyone does feel like having a go, please leave me a comment and let me know. (In fact let me know if you’re not going to do it – I love comments )

Today Adam had a filling – this was yet another episode in the ongoing saga of Adam’s teeth. (He’s already had two extracted under general anaesthetic and needs to have another one taken out as well.) Apparently they won’t do fillings under general anaesthetic, so this had to be done under a local. Which means a needle. Adam REALLY hates needles. John took him this time – I’m laid up with a cold – not too bad, but I’m wiped and fuzzy-headed and achy and didn’t want to have to drive and look after a potentially hysterical boy. And it was fine – Adam still doesn’t realise that a needle was used – they gelled his gum and then put the needle in and out by sleight of hand. I really wish I’d seen it. Lots of kudos to the dentist! So the next extraction can be under local as well

Monday was our little princess’s birthday. We had her party on Saturday – it was supposed to be an outdoor picnic, but with snow forecast we decided to hold it indoors instead. John spread a groundsheet over the dining room table, a rug was laid out under it, with cushions, and they had their picnic there:

(Ruth’s friend isn’t really a blur, I just don’t want to post pics of other people’s children.)

The cake was another combined effort (I bake, John decorates):

Knitting? Yes, I’ve done some. I’ve finally finished a pair of zebra socks that I started as mindless knitting at SkipNorth last year. I’ve made a pair of knees socks and matching fingerless mitts for Ruth (Miss Potter works out exactly the right size for her using sock yarn and 2.5mm dpns.) I’ve done one solitary zebra sock for Adam, and then today I started the Chevron Lace Beret from Magknits. Ironically it was only because it has been closed down (see here if this is news to you) that I was hunting through Ravelry to see which patterns I wanted to retrieve from Google’s cache that I found it. And it’s perfect for the red cashmere that Vikki sent me as part of the UK Swap. I’m sad to see Magknits go, but I think I understand why.

What? You want knitting pictures? Sorry. Not tonight. I’ll cheer you up with the thought that John has a new iPod Touch – very very nice. He’s got pictures on it. There’s a (really really unflattering) photo of Ruth, a photo of Adam and… a photo of a large cow we saw at Woburn. Hmmm…