Welcome 2010....

Happy New Year...........here is to be best year ever!

I stayed up and watched the fireworks in Sydney on TV last night, I did have a couple of micro sleeps while the fireworks were going on.

I am going to be more organised and busy this year with what I have planned on the knitting front.

For the last time....I AM going to knit through my stash in 2010. I know I have been saying this for the past 2 years, well this is the year.

I finished 11 cotton bags for gifts for Christmas, the last one being finished the day before Christmas Eve....ya me!


I have gotten back to show knitting. I decided that I would enter Albion Park Show this year seeing as we moved here early 2009. I joined the show society, got the details and while knitting away on a baby dress read the categories for the knitting section....guess what....no baby dress mentioned. Put that away and start on a jumper for myself which there is a category for Women's Jumper/Cardigan. I am doing it in Patons Shadow Tweed which I bought from my favourite LYS, CR&K Daisy Designs at Fairy Meadow (Daisy Street)at the last "every other tuesday night knitting group". I bought it with some of my winnings for Charity Knitting. I have enough for 2 jumpers/cardigans for myself. It is knitting up very nicely and very quickly, it must be about a 10ply.


I have finished the 3 piece baby set, just have to block...yes I will have to block it (I don't block anything if I can help it). I am half finished a baby dress which now can go in Kiama Show.


While knitting away like a mad woman for the both shows, I read even further on the rules of Albion Park Show, you have to collect your items between 1pm - 3pm on the Sunday of the show, apparently the pavilion closes at noon on the sunday....go figure. Anyway on that Sunday my Aunty has organised a family day at her place as her son and his family are visiting from USA and he would like his girls to meet up with family as they have been living in USA for the past 4 years and it will probably be another 5 years before they come back again. So I think the thought of knitting for Albion Park show will have to wait until 2011....bugger. I still have my entry tickets so I will go and check it all out on the Saturday and see what type of knitting people are putting in. They even have a "feathers" yarn category, now that shouldn't be hard to win as how can you tell mistakes etc in that yarn.

I will finish my jumper, then get back to the baby dress, and by entering Kiama Show only then I can enter more items as I have more time to knit.
I still have to get started on my socks from "Knitabulous" knitting kit as the next one will be arriving very soon.

Then back to charity knitting starting with some 8ply socks for our troops in Afghanistan, then some beanies for "Just Enough Faith" in Sydney in time for our winter.

Tomorrow I have our very first Knitting In The Great Outdoors (KITGO) at Jamberoo from 10am, I am so looking forward to it, the weather says showers but they have a covered area, so I am going Rain, Hail or Shine. And Marti I wish you could join us too, it would be great to meet up with fellow "Tribe" members. You never know one day....dreams do come true you know.
Here is my rocking chair where I sat and knit yesterday (getting too hot in lounge chair)