I meant to blog every day during the Ravelympics. But things got away from me on Friday and again yesterday. I am, however, using the great Blogger way-back machine to fake posts for those two days!
Friday, the casting-on event at the Cambridge Blue. Photos are on the KnitCambridge blog - there were around a dozen of us there and it was a nice evening, despite my frogging my second Olympic project after the first hour and a half!!
I'm making the Mystic Meadows Stole as my Team Cambridge group knitting project, and the Hypoteneuse Shawl as my Team I Knit London project. The London half of the biathlon is working a lot better. Photos as things go on.
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Showing posts with label knitcambridge. Show all posts
Friday, August 08, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
The weekend project
I'd like to think this was putting up pics of the very wonderful KTog 5th birthday get-together on Wednesday night - and I'll get to that on the KTog blog this weekend too - but there are a lot of pictures to crop strategically...
But no, it's finally getting round to painting the dining room. To this effect, if you've not got completely cheesed off with the irregularity and non-knitting-content of this blog over the last few months, please cheer me along. I'm intending to take a pic every 12 hours over the weekend; at 8:30am and 8:30pm; and to blog on progress once a day...
So here's the first shot - as I walked through the door this evening at 8:30pm.
Thursday, 8:30pm
Most of the pictures are down, but that's about it. There's still a very large pile of yarn on the table, and on the floor... You will note the resentful feline apparition by the door at the left. This door is not often closed and is generally wedged open. It took approximately 20 seconds - the time taken to slam the door quite hard to get it to shut, walk through two not-very-big rooms, turn round and aim a camera - for Amelia/Bug to shoot through the cat-flap from the garden at the sound of the door, notice the Problem and start doing the distraught-cat-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-closed-door thing. You'd think she'd been locked away for weeks... But she's a creature of infinite curiosity and extreme patience... always a bad combination...
More tomorrow... if the lurgy that's been stalking me for a week or so doesn't get me first, anyway...
Tomorrow - sugar soap! and Polyfilla! (and does anyone know how to glue stray flaps of ceiling paper back down/up again?)
But no, it's finally getting round to painting the dining room. To this effect, if you've not got completely cheesed off with the irregularity and non-knitting-content of this blog over the last few months, please cheer me along. I'm intending to take a pic every 12 hours over the weekend; at 8:30am and 8:30pm; and to blog on progress once a day...
So here's the first shot - as I walked through the door this evening at 8:30pm.
Thursday, 8:30pm
Most of the pictures are down, but that's about it. There's still a very large pile of yarn on the table, and on the floor... You will note the resentful feline apparition by the door at the left. This door is not often closed and is generally wedged open. It took approximately 20 seconds - the time taken to slam the door quite hard to get it to shut, walk through two not-very-big rooms, turn round and aim a camera - for Amelia/Bug to shoot through the cat-flap from the garden at the sound of the door, notice the Problem and start doing the distraught-cat-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-closed-door thing. You'd think she'd been locked away for weeks... But she's a creature of infinite curiosity and extreme patience... always a bad combination...
More tomorrow... if the lurgy that's been stalking me for a week or so doesn't get me first, anyway...
Tomorrow - sugar soap! and Polyfilla! (and does anyone know how to glue stray flaps of ceiling paper back down/up again?)
Saturday, February 11, 2006
And we're off (or at least, cast on)...
The Knitting Olympics has started! We met at the Fort St George in England last night - Mary's husband took photos - thanks!
That's me on the left, next to Bekki and Anne. At that point I was still trying to find the start point on my yarn, the end having buried itself thorougly inside the centrepull ball...
And then here on the right are Scarlet and Mary.
Rosie was here too but ducked out of shot for the photos as she's cheerleading the team and wasn't mad enough to put her name down. We watched some of the frankly extraordinary opening ceremony (was reminded fondly of Italian TV) and attempted to get started. Reading charts in a pub while being distracted by other people's fab projects was somewhat of a challenge, but I got this much done by the end of the train-ride home
That's me on the left, next to Bekki and Anne. At that point I was still trying to find the start point on my yarn, the end having buried itself thorougly inside the centrepull ball...
And then here on the right are Scarlet and Mary.
Rosie was here too but ducked out of shot for the photos as she's cheerleading the team and wasn't mad enough to put her name down. We watched some of the frankly extraordinary opening ceremony (was reminded fondly of Italian TV) and attempted to get started. Reading charts in a pub while being distracted by other people's fab projects was somewhat of a challenge, but I got this much done by the end of the train-ride home
and think it's going to look rather wonderful when done... Tonight, the Charts Marked B; that's the A charts dealt with...
Today I'm dyeing yarn for Textiles in Focus next weekend - final batch of wool for now is in the steamer (22 skeins dyed today in all) but I've just remembered some Monoprix bargain yarn in nondescript grey I bought several years ago which could do with cheering up. I'll post pics when it's out and drying...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Team Cambridge
I made a button, and a couple of fellow Cambridge Olympians thought it was OK; so here it is.
Please use as you'd like. If you want to link to something, I've put up a skeleton Olympics blog at http://knitcambridge.blogspot.com, which will develop a few more bits and pieces over the next couple of days! Mail me at liz [at] lizmarley [dot] co [dot] uk or leave a comment if you'd like to be able to post to the KnitCambridge blog.
Am off to do an inventory of the stuff for Textiles in Focus (after a disastrous evening with a hat - managed to knit 17cm of the hat on a 40cm circular before realising it was a very short Moebius-type strip (and too small to pretend it's some sort of fancy cowl... ack....) - and sulk that my dye hasn't been delivered yet...
Knitting tonight at the Eagle - 7pm - yay!
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