Long Overdue

Just over a week ago MissMalice awarded me the Rockin' Girl Blogger award & now it's my time to spread the joy

I nominate the following bloggers in no particular order:

Hello Mango for her wonderful designs & gorgeous handspun hand-dyed yarns

Susoolu for having the patience of a saint (she taught me the Turkish Cast On) & for having such a brilliant sense of humour


Xtreme-Knitting: The first knitting blog that I read regularly & inspired me to take the plunge & start my own blog in April '05.

Library Girl Knits! who is always there to offer advice, good tips & generally for being so lovely

and finally

Wooly Wormhead for her wonderful designs and for being so brave & finding her own way against convention.

So please save the button below to your own server space & wear it with pride


Rockin' Girl Blogger

I'm really sorry that it's taken me so long to reply to all the comments recently. I hate the 'no-reply' feature on blogger & wish that I could hit reply to comments as they come in. However what is worse whilst mobile blogging that I could see the comments in my inbox via my mobile phone but couldn't publish them
So I tried to answer as many as I could in subsequent posts.

Library Girl Knits! wanted to know about the cotton from Lidl that I used to make a shopping bag. It's a DK weight & was a special that was in stock for a week or so earlier in the year. The bag can hold a fair bit but I'm not sure about cat litter especially if you're like me & buy huge sacks of the stuff. I find the handles soft but you can always get the solid plastic handle grip things meant for carrier bags if you don't like them. She also asked about some Angel Yarns Sock Yarn that I have in my stash on Ravelry. It's the same composition as Opal and they've got some really nice colours. I've been looking at the Chocolate Plum for ages but have a lot of sock yarn so am being good & sitting on my hands.

Library Girl Knits!, The Silver Spider & Sereknitity all wanted to know what yarn I'm using for DH's socks shown in the last post:


Lana Grossa Meilenweit Mega Boots Stretch shade 709

which I bought whilst on holiday last year.

I tried my best to get the socks to match but the yarn wasn't having any of it at all. So DH will have matching purple toes & then the colours run riot. He loves the colours & is calling them his 'Sun Set Socks'. However as each sock has 108 stitches & I'm using 2mm needles they're taking a VERY long time indeed especially as other projects keep joining the queue in demand of my time.

And for Serknittiy a free pattern from Knit Picks. I couldn't find a decent tutorial in the time that I had to look but did find these films on YouTube!

Crochet bag & more

Last month I made my second ever crochet project & I really enjoyed making it:


Crochet shopping bag


Double crochet base

I filled it up with tins from our food cupboards to demonstrate how much this bag 'grows' when full:


Crochet shopping bag full of tins

I'm planning to make a lot more of these to use up some cottons lurking in my stash. However in future will make the base both wider & longer so that the bag can take a large cereal box or similar.

Pattern: From Marie of 'In Stitches' the knitting club that I set up & run. She is a lapsed blogger so has requested that I don't link to her. The pattern consists of a double crocheted base, trebles to give the 'lattice efffect' & then doubles again for the handles.
Yarn: 120g of Colorado Mutti-color from Lidl bought earlier this year.
Hook: 5mmm


Colorado Mutti-color

I'm getting quite bad at making small things & forgetting to put them on here but will do another post soon. The photos are done I just haven't had time to blog about it. Have also made a something else recently but it's a gift so & the person I'm gifting it to reads this so nothing about that yet.

Life has been busy as ever in the blueadt house but perhaps a bit 'quieter' this week as DD is away & doesn't return until tonight. So DH using the second week of his holiday has decorated her bedroom & built a wardrobe to hide an 'awkward' part of her room. So the rest of the day will be taken with removing the dust sheets & cleaning the carpet thereby removing the last visible signs of the mucky people who lived here before us & replacing DD's furniture.

Finally MissMalice has awarded me with this:


Rockin' Girl Blogger

Thank you so much Alice. Now to chose my 5 nominees..........

New blogger

I've finally managed to move over to the new blogger but had to unsub from the Scarf Style KAL to do it. Now I need to sign up again & work my way around the new features.

I also finally found all the comments that went AWOL a year ago - a grand total of 47 & only 1 was sp4m So all have been enabled & the moderation thingy is working now so no more lost comments.

We spent the weekend sifting through our stuff in preparation for the big move & we've now got 13 bin liners of shredded paper piled up to the ceiling in the hall! It's hopefully going to a dog who is kennelled outside but is allergic to hay & straw but if it's not collected by tomorrow we're going to try & squeeze it into the paper recycling bin - I think DH is being a bit optimistic there myself!

Boxes are being numbered, catalogued on a spreadsheet & given a coloured label to indicate which room they should be put in on moving day - but I'm sure we'll still lose stuff. However I'm taking no chances with my stash - it's staying in MIL's spare room to be collected by me once we've moved. That way it'll stay clean & I know exactly where it is

For Kim & all other dog lovers - here's an Airedale fix:


Annie wrapped in a towel after her bath

I groomed the dogs last weekend so shaggy monsters are no more. Annie absolutely loves to be rubbed in a towel & looked so cute & her nose so big that I couldn't resist that shot!

Blogkeeping

I've utilised my non-knitting status & have finally done some much needed 'blog' keeping. I've updated the links in 'Blogs I Read' on my BlogRolling account as I was reading loads of new blogs on my Bloglines but they weren't on my sidebar.

If you see a new one - go & visit!