Where do you see it

Hi

To finish off the story of my trip I took at Christmas …..

We detoured on the way home via Auckland, NZ

Although the weather was not good, we made a little trip across the harbour to Devonport

And guess what greeted us as we got off the short ferry ride ??????

Devonport is a very pretty little town

Unfortunately the day we went was a public holiday in New Zealand, but we did get a very lovely breakfast and I was totally surprised when I spotted this ……

Very, very lovely and the lady who was working there was very helpful

Unfortunately I had no way of carrying yarn around with me for the day

Btw - Did anyone else watch the show last night "Then The Wind Changed"?

It was about Black Saturday and quite a few tears were shed by me

But I was delighted to spot some of the women from Strathewen creating a knitting project for the children - giant chickens!!!

They commented about how helpful the knitting and time together were

Old is New Again

Hi everyone

Well it seems that a couple of you already had the same idea as me and dug out your old patterns.

Pat from Hooks and Books reworked the lovely little Hug Me Tight.  And boy does it look cute!

Jane from Papillion Gold had already beat me to it.  She has a lovely little 'Puss' project which got swamped by the big He-man jumper she made  :-)

Jenny from Justjen has worked a vintage pattern for gloves.  And then worked another beautiful cable pair.

Here is another vintage pattern

Which I think is very cute

Sleeveless Hug-Me-Tight

Details here

From this pattern book

And if you thought I was not crocheting  :-)

Well I have had some granny squares hanging around for mmm..... well a very long time

And I went looking to make something practical with them, just not a blanket, and it would be for a charity

So .....  I loosely used this pattern and got this

Yep, unblocked.  It's an acrylic, so I don't like to touch it too much.  Probably explains why it was sitting there for so long

And to end this post with a weird question - anyone else enjoy 'Wild Boys' last night?

Nice to see "Australian" history for a change

Oh and did I mention Gourmet Farmer Series 2 has started - Thursday nights SBS

Thoroughly enjoyed Series 1.  Missed the first show of Series 2.  But I'm hooked again  :-)

Hope the sun is shining where you are

Unless you would prefer it to rain - gently though please  :-)

What's going on around here

Hi everyone

Well I want to make a gift for someone who needs a little bit of support at the moment

So since its cold, I thought scarf, so that when she wears it, hopefully it will feel like a hug - OK

Needs to be soft and squishy and wool - OK

Needs to be pink - her favourite colour and the colour of love - OOPS

I went stash-diving and I do not have ONE pink ball/yarn!!

Anyone would think I don't like the colour  :-)))))

Well, I don't wear it

But, I do love it on baby girls

So I just HAD to visit my LYS (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

Thank goodness it had stopped raining for half an hour to walk up there The rain has not stopped since Friday, and the last two days have been really heavy and very, very windy

Is it pink enough   ;-)

Just a sidenote on something I have been watching on Foxtel lately

It's called "Edwardian Farm" more info can be found here

Two males and a female spend twelve months living the life of Edwardian Farmers.

The episode I watched today was beautiful with a lot of time spent at Dartmore - so pretty, yet so wild.

I love the series for the time-warp back in history

I know there have been American/Canadian??? ones showing how it was everything was done back then.  There was also an Australian one (sorry, can't remember the title), but instead of using Australians they had families from overseas.  Knowing the little I do of our history, I found a few flaws in the Australian version, that were obviously put there for the story line rather than reality .

I love these type of shows learning about the old-fashioned ways of doing things and the "new-fangled" inventions as they come along

Bye for now