While I'm Waiting

It was a beautiful day here on Saturday. The sun shone but it was still cold enough to wear my Central Park Hoodie. Yes, I wore it, it's now had its first outing. I put it on in the hope that DH would manage to take some stunning pictures of me outside in the glorious sunshine. Sadly it was not to be. Having been away from home for 6 weeks, the other jobs that had accumulated over that time took all his attention (not to mention the 3 children!) so there was no time for a relaxing photo session. I'm a pretty good photographer myself (spent 4yrs at Uni taking Media Arts), but I can't model and photograph at the same time, without the aid of a remote button and a good deal of contortion.


So I'm waiting............patiently............for him to get round to doing his Strobist thing.


In the meantime I'm cracking on with the little Matinee Jacket that I'm making. Yesterday I spent a lot of time ripping back to get my sizing right on the sleeves. I'm using an old handwritten pattern as inspiration that I wrote up back in the early '80's, but I'm making a smaller size. This is requiring some adjusting as I go. Then ofcourse, I have to knit the second sleeve exactly the same!


It's all good fun.

Life And Art

I've hardly had time to knit a stitch recently, hence my blogging absense during the past week. I have been painting. Not quite in the Michaelangelo way (although I did do two ceilings!) but more like in the roller and masking tape way. I just spent our four day weekend painting my daughter's bedroom. It was backbreaking work and to be honest by the end of the day I was so tired and my hands ached so much that I just couldn't pick up my knitting at all.

I then devoted the earlier part of this week to teaching a class on Illuminated Manuscripts, a totally fascinating and very inspiring topic. I absolutely adore the history of art and could spend hours just researching around my given subject for the month.

Last night I finally got back to knitting.

I'm fiddling around a bit right now, creating a matinee jacket, which was one of the first items I ever knitted. I've not made that many in recent years so it's quite interesting to go back to creating something so small and beautiful. I'm using an acrylic yarn from my stash, because baby items really need to be easy to wash and dry and I'm just making it up as I go along. It's proving quite interesting with it's delicate openwork, artistic in fact!

Bootie Update

Baby Steps

We're expecting news of a new addition to our extended family sometime over the next few weeks, so in anticipation of the event, I knitted these on Sunday. Aren't they adorable?! I raided my stash and found one skein of Dale Babyull, a fingering weight wool with a beautiful soft texture. Following "Ruth's Perfect Baby Booties" pattern from The Knitnook and using a size 2.5mm needle, I cast on and created these cuties in a matter of hours.

Now, when the call comes, all I have to do is thread some blue or pink ribbon through the eyelet holes below the cuff and they're ready for their new owner.

It's always great to have the excuse to knit for a baby.