...and Guild friends

On Sunday I gave four good reasons for enjoying my local group of the Knitters' Guild of NSW. In that post I really wanted to focus on the benefits of having access to someone else's knitting library.

Today I want to share another reason [related to reason #1]: friends take photos because they like what they see.



Thanks Diane for taking a photo of DD actually wearing her stole [albeit posing for a photo]! It has been severely cropped [i.e. DD has no head] to eliminate as many distracting details from the background as possible - it would be impossible to avoid them all given that there are 50+ people in the room!!

I need to reblock that border!!

poor sad neglected blog

It's not just this blog that's been neglected - I have 318 unread postings on Bloglines! Life has been hectic with end of year assessments [created and marked] and administration plus last minute preparations for Christmas and the wedding not to mention just plain dogged tiredness or, should I say, near-exhaustion?

The wedding stole [thanks for asking Bells] has not progressed in six weeks - I'm too tired to concentrate. I am however close to completing another crocheted blanket [2.1m x 1m; 70"x40"]. The squares have all been crocheted together, the border has been done and there's only the ends to be sewn in. I have also commenced a lapghan which is now about 90cm [36"] across. This one is based on a modified version of the Crocheted Pi Shawl in the latest Yarn magazine - except mine is square not round.

We had Christmas dinner last night with SIL2B - he has to work on Christmas Day. The pudding was as good as it looks, if I do say so myself!

A special thanks to Sally for emailing me to make sure I was okay - I am fine, just tired and busy, thanks. We're off to Tamworth today to spend Christmas with my family and we'll be back on Friday so WM can work on Saturday. Hopefully I'll then be able to keep up with all my blog friends more regularly.

Remember...