winter

I love winter in this country. It is dark at 4.30pm and it all feels so cuddly-there is absolutely no guilt in snuggling down at home with the knitting needles and a pot of tea. All the blankets I have made are in use and knitting is a perfectly reasonable use of time.
I also love Christmas -as a Jew is is totally stress free-for me it means buying last minute food at the Supermarket-who cares what and watching loads of good tele. We also act as a support service for non Jewish friends who tend to make calls or visit when the extended family gets too much.
I find the whole time quite magical-in my opinion when you are cold you can get warm with more clothes but when I am hot and bothered there is buggar all I can do. Besides knitting in the heat is a little challenging.
So my beloved readers eat, knit, blob and enjoy!

a lot of ball winding

All the yarn I got is now in balls, samples in my knitting book waiting for a new battery in my scales to weigh it all. It was enourmously satisfying making up my own yarns from all these lovely threads.

I am now really determined to stop buying and start using-I really do have enough yarn to last an awfully long time.

Now is also drama group time-we put on a show each year at the end of January-it makes me feel really energised and motivated to get things done. I am now going to go and get work done for my knitting design course.

I throughly reccomend using Texere silk thread mixed with cotton to make up the most lovely yarns.

I also did the Christmas lights tour of the West End Harrods windows were based on the new James Bond movie-how tacky is that, Liberites was ho hum, Fortnum and Mason lovely-though the prices are simply unbelievable.Regent Street is simply gorgeous. Go look!

Joy oh joy

My friend and her Dad gave me free range on her late mother's wool collection-she was a machine knitter and I have had great fun mixing fine yarns together to make knitting yarn. An incredibly obsessive activity the need to finish the cone is almost too much. I am now getting space issues big time-Julie came to visit the yarn pile/me and took some home. I do not need to take advantage of every cheap/free yarn opportunity