David Tennant's Xmas message

he recorded a short xmas message video just for me! Click on the Dr Who news feed link to see thier 'Dr Who Adent(ure) calendar- its really rather splendid!!

Oh what a night!

HAve been tinkering with the blog tonight- see right column- good pics eh? Please do the poll. It WILL enrich your life...

IKL's UK Stitch n BItch day!

It's taken me this long to collect my thoughts about what I want to say about the day- to express the deep level of excitement that gripped me all day long and the immense gratitude to G and C for organising such a phenomenal day.......Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It was amazing- a fantastic day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There- thats what I think!

Here are some pictures:

My SnB experience started at 8.30 when I arrived and reported for duty and stamped some labels for Amy Lame's Pom Pom International - this was fun for me as I had always wanted to be a librarian and stamp books

After that I was on door duty and witnessed what can only be described as a semi-yarn-rabid throng of visitors queuing up. I gave them all programs to look at while they were waiting for the doors to open as I was scared of an uprising!

The queue grew and grew.....and grew..... and meandered all the way past the knitted river... Until the doors were opened and the yarn hungry mob charged through the doors. I perfected my ticket selling spiel and accompanying arm gestures which I used to indicate

a) if you wear your badge you can come and go as you please!

b)The toilets? Through the double doors, left and up the stairs!

c) No..... sorry there is no cloak room....

d) Please hand your ticket to Phil on the door.

(I later taught all I knew to Elly and I think she was eternally grateful!)

After a while I was curious to see what was going on inside - so many had flocked past me...

There were massses and masses and masses of people! I got scared and ran out to do the door and ticket sales again. Then I swapped and went and worked the IKL stand- with a pint of beer- and it was fantastic fun-

Here are two ladies looking at Pet Heaven- fantastic book- I think is is practical polly of wonder woman jumper fame. A celebrity on her blog at the moment. Talking of celebs... I mock- beatle mania- screamed at Debbie Stoller as she walked past me with Gerard and I think this is why she carried on walking and eyed me with near suspicion for the rest of the day!

I want to be a Shallac sister when I grow up!

I bought a ....

and was still looking at it in a frenzy of excitement at midnight. I took all the pages out until March and then thought had better put it away...

It was great to see Jenny, supermodel Mike (see fashion link in previous post) and Verity (her dad is an inventor ), Ellie and other knitting people I have met recently, although I did not have a coherent conversation with anyone all day as I was just too EXCITED!

That's all for now! Love to G and C for making the day happen- it was FABULOUS !!!!

I knit London's Stitch n bitch day fashion show!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crFLcgJCApo

I believe that you can watch my video if you click on this?

Stash envy

Had to put a sideways pic in for fun! the police bear guards the knitting needles!

Having just seen Mithranstar's latest blog post and the picture of her amazing yarn shelves, I felt compelled to post pics of my bookcase which has become the storage and display for all knitting related stuff (as I have reorganised my flat and previously all this stuff was in a bag or two) so here you are: (bear in mind is one bookcase)

So- not even really one shelf full. Some way to go yet...

Any one for sock?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/613531/how_to_fold_socks/

This is fantastic and completely ridiculous- it made me laugh.

The mental art of...fairy cake making on a Sunday when your scales have broken...

Yes, I thought I would make some cakes today so that I would have something sweet to eat...

Unfortunately, I discovered that my scales were broken (then I remembered telling off a child in my class for jumping on them- which would indeed break them-hence the pic of the bin and afore mentioned scales)so...I thought what would JB do? Would she give up and starve? NO! She would use an antique beige plastic measuring cup- so this is what I did, but I haven't included a pic of it as you might all want it.

Here you can see that I made the cake mixture and added loads of cocoa. Thought I would sling in some pictures showing the carnage that ensued- for realism.

I put the cakes in the oven and set the timer - 12 minutes allegedly and did the washing up. Then turned round and ! HORROR!

Yes-you guesssed it- found I had not washed everything as I had thought.

So- cook, cook, cook went the cakes-but for 22 minutes, and they came out looking like this:

They remind me of the knitted tits we made last weekend. Now I have iced them and they look like the knitted tits with icing and sprinkles on:

Dig the retro plate eh? Have to go- my cat wants feeding.

This one goes out to the ones I love...

Yes! For you lovely boys at IKL- here is a pic of my b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l Saartje's booties:

Things of great beauty and magnificence- just like you!

Chic like a sailor and nautical novelties

Well... I have had a lesson from Craig in how to rotate my pictures and it has worked:

Although, now I have made a mistake with the photos and can't seem to delete them...nevermind......

and I even managed to move the photo where I wanted it! Hurray! (The pirate wants to be in this all the way through- I can't get rid of him)

Anyway, today I went to the 'sailor chic' knitting event (hence the pirate- he had his nipple tassles chopped off cruelly as there were children...) with IKL icons Craig and Sue, (see how I managed to do links there! are you proud?)Melissa joined us as did some other random people throughout the afternoon. One passerby picked up my knitted tit and stared at it inquisitively- I could not take a picture of this sight as I was trying not to laugh.

We were nautically productive:

Yes- that is a seagull on Craig's hat- later Sue sewed it on for him and he was brave and wore it to the pub afterwards- he may start a new trend. Sue was very productive- she made a cat (for the pirate) and a bell (for the pirate's ship). I tried to make a rabbit....until it went wrong as I should have had a choc egg to put up its bum and it was pointed out to me that this had nothing to do with sailors....

So I turned it into a whistle (for the pirate). Melissa made him a sailor's hat and then we took the pirate to the pub...

Not content with all his gifts- the pirate did something very unacceptable in the pitcher he had been propped up in..

You just can't take him anywhere.

Knit a Tit!

This afternoon I went to Knit a Tit at I knit London http://www.iknit.org.uk/ and we had a great time knitting tits for Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

Sorry for the sideways pictures- some one tell me how to do this properly!

Sue made lots of nice cakes- they were a taste sensation and far surpassed any 'expert' cake makers we might know about!

At long last I managed to...

...sew the Rowan Portia twisty jumper together- it had been hiding in a bag since early September, such was my fear of ruining all that hard done knitting. However, I managed to sew it up and try it on and actually I feel very proud of myself. Here are two pictures...

As you can see- I have not worked out how to a)rotate my pictures when importing from my computer to blogger and

b) work out how to import photos from flicker where I can work out how to rotate them and have indeed done so.

Sorry about that....

I am new to this milarkey!

I am new to this blogging stuff. I cannot work out how to get two photos in a post and text without the photos going to the top...... therefore I shall only post one picture at a time until I get some tech support.....

Here's one that shows Craig's favourite pastime...

I love buttons too and no, Craig, I do knot think it is odd to want to tip them all out on the floor and sort them into colours. I used to do this with lego all the time as a child...

Goodbye! Farewell!

Yes- we know that Jenny is only moving to Oxford- but she will not be able to come to I Knit London's knitting groups anymore and that is sad. We met as an intimate knitting group last night at the shop with Elly and Vonnie, a newcomer and Craig and Elspeth.

Here is the photographic evidence...

Jenny's man sock is coming along nicely as is her pumpkin made from sainsbury's bags. Did you know they can't get orange platsic bags in America? Who would have thought it with all their technology....

We love you Jenny!

see what I mean?

Save the Arctic Musk Ox...

...his name is Fred,
he is the last of the of A.m.o s,
he lives in fear of the yarn hungry led
so only grows fur on his toes!

HA ha !

Blogless no more!