Morecambe

Good Quote

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.--Gary Trudeau

Idle Hands Syndrome

I've nothing on my knitting needles at the moment and I can't decide which unfinished cross stitch project to pick up since I finished Strawberry Mouse,or indeed whether to start a new one. I came across this and I reckon I can design something similar using techniques from Horst Schulz and Vivian Hoxbro Domino Knitting. I'd probebly leave out the ribbony bits, maybe use Snowflake yarn and other speciality yarns. I'm pretty certain that the method employed will be a form of domino knitting, in that each square is knitted to another, no stitching required, and you weave the ends in as you go. To totally avoid any making up I suppose you could get really clever and do it on a circular.

4 Ply

I must get hold of some of this yarn from Colinette. The choice of subtle colour blends is exactly what I fancy using next.

So true

Like most people I recieve a lot of forwarded e-mails and spam. the spam is easily deleted but I sometimes read the forwarded ones. A recent one contained this little gem, "You can't trust dogs to watch your food." So daft but so true, love it.

Christmas present?

This tickled me no end. The welcome screen today was advertising buying a present along the lines of driving a Ferrari. What amused me no end was the advice to bring waterproof gear...why?..has it got a leak?...do all posh people have to wear waterproof gear to drive their Ferrari's? If so, I suspect a gigantic design flaw, not to mention a street cred. problem. I'm sure I would want to step out of my Ferrari in some stunning designer outfit, not "fishings-r-us" best wet weather gear.

Jammy sod

My goodness, this bod was jammy being first to get www.Boring.com. I bet he's been offered a fortune for it over time.

Sunderland point

Exported from my Diary. Actually refers to 2002 Today my walking companion and I allowed Sir to accompany us on a walk to Sunderland Point. We met her partner for lunch in The Globe and then set off. As the tide was in the road was impassable to we struck out on the footpath. It seemed easy enough at first, the fields were full of sheep and swans and the sun was shining. It was very windy and Sir and D produced hats and scarves. Soon we had strayed from the path, somehow, and were clambering over gates, barbed wire, ditches and sneaking past bulls. At one point we had to use Sir's head for balance whilst we scaled a fence. I'm sure he was squashed a foot shorter for a little while.Eventually we found our way to the shore line and visited Sambo's Grave. Children had made coloured stones and flowers and left them there. It began to rain which made us get our map reading act together and we were soon turning the headland.

The road was still blocked so we had to find an alternative route home.

Poor sir, he had to help us over fences and ditches. My legs were stumpier than theirs and sometimes he had to lift me down. D and I were laughing so much on occasion that we couldn't balance. To think that a few weeks ago D was recovering from major surgery and couldn't push the hoover around and today she was climbing five bar gates. When we decide d to get fitter for all the walking in Disney, we didn't do things by halves.

ready stitched

The following site that this picture is on is set up in such a way that you can't easily link to an individual page. So, I'm committing the cardinal sin of linking direct to their image but as I imagine no one but me ever looks at this blog it's not really using any more bandwidth than if I was sending visitors there to Crosstitching.com (not treble "s" by the way, someone has probebly already bought the full spelling").

This item is advertised as ready stitched for a 275 dollars, presumably you frame it yourself or whatever. Apart from the fact that it seems easy enough to sell some mass produced print for that sort of money but not a hand crafted item, the waiting time is over 12 weeks!....erm...how many weeks to Christmas? Of course you can buy it for Christmas 2004, but who is that organized? Lovely picture though. I clicked on it thinking it was for the chart.

Knitted snowflake

I can imagine these knitted snowflakes on a tree, or on the festive table as coasters, or on a christmas card, or........