Yarn Pron Friday

First off some v-nice Dannish Cotton that lovely Sue swapped me for kitty bikkies n some other stuff. It shall become the dollar and a half cardi from the Spring IK. Now i blame this addition to stash a) on my SP for sending me the magazine with the prtty pattern and b) Sue for showing me what she was destashing, i mean really after last time she should know better ;)
Next some Sari Silk from toggle, which as i type 1.5 of these balls has become unbiased bag from knitty, looking pretty so far :)

On The Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

Today me and my dear friend Miss Mavor went to Luss, upon the banks of loch lomond. It was a gorgeous sunny day! first off we made a friend:how cute is this wee chap?? very friendly too hurried over to speak to us.

Very very pretty hence the following gratuitous and potentially repetative scenery pictures
from the beachducks! (yes not scenery but well)
mountains! and a big black car...
Ben Lomond!
We went on a boat trip
I love boats! On the boat we took more pictures!View back towards Luss, inc random big hill...
Looking the other way up the Loch
Up the valley to the North, looks almost like a painting!
More large hills/mountains
Pretty church we wandered round the grounds of (hazy picture boo)
We eyeballed houses we could never afford
Good Loch view.
On a peninsula jutting into the Loch, must be very pretty!!

And of course there was some shopping to be done!
I got these for myself
Coo Earrings! so cute

I got a present for mother
Then finally we went to a random sorta factory outlet place (not terribly inspiring) but i got these:
Book of stitches, always handy and a general how to type book for those extra wee pointers noo and again!

Adventures in Dying

Last thursday i dyed. I was waiting in for parcels to arrive to i had a wee play.

I started with this
Fairly non descript beigey wool.
I skeined it and put it to soak with some salt and vinegar (like having chips!)While it soaked i made up dying solutions, common or garden food colouring diluted with water
Colours are pretty much the same as the glasses apart from the red one at the far right contains purple (can you see where i am going)
Yarn went in a bowl, and dye squooshed on with some syringes (hurrah for science family)
Yarn went in the microwave, then got washed and hung out to dry
Once dried i (detangled and) reskiened the results:

Flash Your Stash 07!

In fine knittyboard tradition I have flashed my stash! Click on the Flickr button in the side bar to go see it in all its glory!!

O Canadia! Wheeeeeeeeeee

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY I got me an other parcel from my SP!!!!

Collected it from post office this morning!!

twas a tea themed parcel!! cany get better than that! 2 funky wee tins of tea, ice wine and strawberry maple flavour, a tea cosy (which nearly got utelised as a hat as after the post office i went down the street and it was more than a little chilly), a wee teapot shaped tea ball hoodgy, 2 packs of sweeties: some clodhoppers (very yummy and almost all gone), and some baskin robbins mint choc chip sweeties, also yummy, Interweave Knits spring, which is most exciting as i really wanted the entrelac socks pattern, tho now i also wanna knit the dollar and a half cardi, so thats less good!! and last but by no means least:Patons SWS in a spiffy shade of pinks, me likey!!

Course with a shiny new tea cosy what do i need??

a shiny new teapot!! s'pink!

I also bought my first set of addis to once again try this magic loop malarky given that the needles i was attempting it on before gave up the ghost and needle and cable decided to part company!!

The great vegetable experiment 07, day 22

busy day today!!

I dug over my newly assigned garden(after my dear father shifted half the compost heap, much kudos to him)

see me survey my work, in my sexy gardening outfit...

I planted out the tatoes, garlic and onions

not a lot to see admittedly but if you look the string rectangel indicate where things are planted

I planted out the matoes into grow bag and flower pouch dodah

twas a most sunny day today hence my shadow

I put the "greenhouse"'s jaskit on and put my seeds in it

and general seed growth updatepeasbroccolicarrots, so far neither basil have grown, will give them time...

Honey, I'm Home!!

so i have arrived pack at the parental fold, I'm even all unpacked get me! You will notice no cycling as yet, nainly due to unpacking and a little bit due to swearing at my computer, yes its brokwn again somewhere between edinburgh and here the power supply decided to give up the ghost it seems oh well another thing to try and fix!

Anyway onto more exciting things, my new neighbours, was toddling about the garden (plus of being home) when father beakoned me to observe the pond, in which there were somewhere in the region of 15 froggies just casually basking (and a few doing naughty things, discovered when father hoiked them out to try and take a piccie!) anyway these are the best of the piccies i managed to get:

look closely should be able to see frog spawn

Summer Goal!

You may have noticed i have me a new wee progress bar over there <--, well i have decided that seeing as how i will be at home over the summer and have access to both an excersie bike and a real bike/places to cycle, i am gonna try and cycle the equivlent of home to Sue's and back again, just because its a reasonably far away point without being stupidly far. Anyway good old mapquest tells me that it is 830 miles so that is what i aim to cycle by September 1st, watch this space...

The Great Vegetable Experiment 07, Day 12

tomatoes are shooting up

so is the broccoli (might be basil think its broc)

peas likewise

less so here, some growth tho,
soon we will get the tatties etc oot

Yorkie comes to town!

yea that right Yorkie "flew" into town a blustery windy night (well actually she came by train, laden with knitpicky goodies)
We had a most splendid time! (for details y'all can check her blog she tells it better than me and i am hungry) we knitted:

We took in historic sights

We took attrocious arms length photoes (i look attortious, Yorkie looks all glam and photogenic damn her)

all in al i can say that Yorkie, is fabby fabby. everyone should invite her to visit immediately
I would also like to appologise for the climate and the rate that i walk to comabat such!!
yay for Yorkie

Presents from Lovely Sue

Lovely Lovely Sue sended me pressies!!

Headscarfs made by her own fair hand! sold on ebay (see previous postie for link). they are spifferooooo
Buttons!! I love buttons, more on that later...

Yarn Pron Friday-The Motherload

OOOK well i have bought a lot of yarn this week...
IndividuallyKnit Picks Panache in Dusk (40% baby alpaca, 20% silk, 20% cashmere, 20% extrafine merino, 100% snorgable). Destined to be a vesty thingHipknits Silk aran purchased from the lovely Sue, who is destashing on ebay but i got a sneak preview! Destined to be a cardi i think.Knit picks Andean Silk in leaf, again high snorgle factor. Destined to be backyards leaves scarf
Knit Picks Pallette. Destined to be a preemptive Shetland Shawl.
Squishy Luxury Alpaca Peru, from my SP rather yummy!Luxury Nazca again from my SP, destined to be snorgled (again with the baby alpaca)

Purple Sock yarn sent by Sue, destined to go to damama for socksMore Patons Washed haze aran in dark denim to finish the sweater of doom

Knit Picks Cotlin in Dessert and Morroco, destined to become a sweater and a DNA vesty thing, tho i donno which will be which yet...Cotton, cheap goodness from Lidl!, will be come perhaps a sweater of some sort

Rowan Linen Print in blush, destiny unknown.Not strictly yarn but well, crotcher hooks and blocking pins!