Sick people should stay home

It makes me so mad that people come to work when they are sick....and as usual I end up sick with a damn head cold from it. I had a great weekend in the Hunter Valley, despite getting a nasty head cold while away. And this weekend I spend with some wonderful people at the Annual C.R. & K Daisy Design Knitters Retreat held at the Mt. Keira Scout Camp. It was great catching up with people who have attended in the past and meeting new people who attended this year. I made a felt ball, dyed some yarn, and tried to drop spindle spin, which I wasn't all that good at, but will try again at home which might be a bit more comfortable for me. I know now why they are called a Drop Spindle, because if I dropped mine once, I dropped it a few dozens times. I bought up big on the yarn front, heaps of pure wool baby wool, and some really nice Emotions 4ply which I am knitting another baby cardigan with the boat pattern on the front. I planned most of my yarn buying this weekend, with patterns picked out and a list of yarns needed, so now I have more knitting to get done in the very near future, then continue on with my stash knitting for the remainder of the year. I finished the Horizontal Vertical Kimono for myself last week and wore it over the weekend.

What is with blogger these days,it doesn't leave spaces between paragraphs anymore or put the photos side by side....WTF.

Hunter Valley Girls Weekend......

Early tomorrow morning I am going to the Hunter Valley with some girls that I ride with, leaving some husbands at home to look after themselves. We have booked a horse and carriage wine tour, really looking forward to that, wish I liked wine better than I do. Here are the pictures of my knitting recently finished and mentioned in previous post.

not sure in this new setout how to get the photos side by side. And I forgot to upload the blue baby cardigan with the boats on the front. And after trying to find the cardigan on my camera, I don't have a photo, maybe it is on my phone...I will check that one out another day. I am now off to finish packing for my 4 days away.

Where is the time going

It seems like time is going by so fast, and lots of things are being done. The year is rushing by, we are April already and there is so much to be done. Well according to my head there is so much to be done, I could take a step back and relax a bit, but I am so keen to empty my stash and soon, sick of a big mess on the floor. All cupboard space is full and I refuse to take it outside the room where it lives. I finished the baby hoodie yesterday and will give it to the baby on Wednesday when he arrives from Melbourne. I showed his grandma this morning when I arrived at work and she suggested that I keep it and give to him on Wednesday. It will be nice to see him and the hoodie together, I am sure the Denim colour is going to suit him, but will be nice to see it does. I pattern shows the hoodie with flat buttons, I did see some very cute little toggle buttons, but being for a 6 month old, it may have been a bit uncomfortable for him when he is rolling over on his belly, I found some nice flat buttons that suit the colour really well. I started the other day on the cardigan for another person at work's baby, I am doing a pale blue cardigan with cute little boats on the front, the boats have a flag that sits out from the front too, very cute. I will finish the second front tonight and hopefully a sleeve tomorrow night, I usually do both sleeves together, but as this cardigan only takes 2 balls of yarn and I have finished one ball, I will need to do the sleeves separately. I am hoping for a Thursday finish on this cardigan. I sorted out some yarn to sell at the Old Fire Station Knitters sale in May in Kiama, I have a heap of acrylic yarn from my mother in law and some other yarns that realistically I am not going to use, and I need to clear room on my floor in my computer/craft room. Some of these yarns are very nice and expensive, but if I am not going to use them, I can't see any reason to keep them any longer. I am in a very harsh de-cluttering mood. Photos to come, they are in the camera, I need time to download them and put them on this page.