Aaaagggggghhhhhhh!!!!

Looking through my knitting bag last night after finishing the insert for my Sorrell jumper, guess what I found?


Yip, a nearly full ball of the Tapestry yarn. Heaven knows why I didn't think of looking there before I bought another ball. Oh well, seems like I will need to do those wristwarmers after all - or maybe I'll do a beret.

New Project

I went to my LYS today to get another ball of Tapestry to finish my Sorrell jumper - I am only going to need a few grams so it was quite infuriating having to buy another ball but I think I will use the remainder to make some wrist warmers.

While there, I also bought 2 Debbie Bliss baby books - I love her patterns and yarns. My friend from college is expecting a baby in February so I thought I would make the crossover top and pants from the Essential Baby Book and also the stripey hat and socks to match. I've gone for a teal and light grey colourway as I don't know whether its a boy or girl. The top will be in the light grey and the pants in the teal.

I had thought about doing another baby blanket but I'm just sick of doing baby blankets at the moment. At least an outfit will be something a bit different.

Update

We found out over the weekend that my Mum has cancer in both her kidneys. It was quite a shock but one that I had had in the back of my mind for quite some time. We are still waiting on full prognosis at the moment but we decided to cancel the trip to Peru as my parents just need me around at the moment. The care they have recieved so far has been next to useless and so I have been phoning her GP to try and get some care in place - it looks like he has finally decided to do something today as she has got progressively worse in the last couple of days. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he does engage the nurses and home help that he promised on Monday but so far hadn't done anything about.

I've been next to useless at doing any work, knitting, housework etc this week although I have been making some inroads into our wine collection - not the healthiest thing to do but a couple of glasses at night seems to help with sleeping.

I have been working on the collar of my Sorrell jumper and it is taking forever - I've still got 18 rows to go before I finish the collar and then need to do the insert. I am sure that I am going to run out of yarn too. The collar is an uphill struggle just due to the large number of stitches so I am commiting myself to trying to do at least 2 rows per night so at this rate I'll be finished the collar in just over a week's time.

Trip to London

We visited London at the weekend to see James' brother and girlfriend who moved there over a year ago and this was our first trip down to see them. Feeling so tired today as we had a long walk on Saturday from the BA eye down to Tower Bridge and across to St Katherines Dock and then back again. Visited Brick Lane market on Sunday and even managed to walk past the yarn stall without buying anything!

Since we travelled by train, I managed to finally get the heels turned on my socks and am now going to leave the rest of this project on hold so that I can take it to Peru and finish them while we complete the Inca trail.

Royal Mail Grumble

Don't you just hate Royal Mail? I've got my 2nd SP parcel all ready to send - decided on an indulgence theme for this one - and now Royal Mail have announced a strike from Thursday until Tuesday. My poor SP is just going to have to wait another week or so for this one as I don't trust sending it and then find that its got lost in the backlog.