Wibbo's Words

Pink and white

 
I've got two orchids in flower again - this and a white one.

Time flies...and things change

Four years ago today, Wibbo's Words came into being. Looking back at the first post, it seems strange to see such a tiny photograph. In those days, most people I knew had dial-up internet connections and images took forever to download, even fairly small ones. I still feel slightly embarrassed remembering the time I bunged up a friend's inbox for hours by emailing her several too-large photos...

I've met some lovely people through blogging and send a Big Thank You to Yvonne who twisted my arm encouraged me to take the first step.

Eventually...

 
Pre-ordered from Amazon, January 12 2009. Don't you just hate it when you pre-order a book only to be told on the day it's due to be despatched that Amazon haven't got enough copies to fulfill your order? That happened twice with this book. I cancelled the Amazon order early this week, ordered the title from The Book Depository and it arrived this morning. That's more like it! Fascinating book; well worth the wait.

There are flowers

To go with last month's leaves, I've made flowers.

 

 

Oh, and a nice felted bed for The Flossbag. She approves.

Packaging-speak

'Advanced Closure System'? Er, no, it's a zip. This is a plastic bag with a zip across the top. Hardly 'advanced', is it?

I hate change

Typepad has a new interface. Just in case you were wondering what change I'm hating today...

I've been knitting leaves. Lots and lots of garter stitch leaves for this year's Knitting Month at Hove Museum in November.

Want to knit leaves of your own? Download the leaf pattern by clicking here: Download leaf

At long last, the netting's down

 

 

 

 

The scaffolding's still up, but hey, I can see out of my windows!

Birthday stuff

I celebrated my birthday last weekend, starting with a trip to Scoop & Crumb. Emma's birthday is two days after mine, so this was a joint knit 'n' scoff 'n' open presents afternoon.

 

Liz was down for the weekend (she took the photos) and the weather behaved - sunshine, blue sky and sea - nice.

 

I had lovely presents (some yarny and some non-yarny) including purple merino/cashmere handspun

 

and a beautiful knitted cushion.

 

The basement cat decided she was not amused...

 

Photographs in this post copyright Liz Marley 2009.

It's still here...

...the netting, that is. Oh, and of course the scaffolding too.

Three months and counting....

A few highlights

Busy times at Wibbo Towers! I had a great time at Sam and Dan's wedding which was followed by lunch with the DC&A'ers (no link - it's a Ravelry thing), then knitting in the sunshine at the Pavilion Cafe.

 

There has been sewing going on

 

and much knitting. The Big Brown Blob is finished, the halves are joined together ready for blocking. I want to offer this design as a free Ravelry pattern, so I'm knitting it again in laceweight (Jaggerspun Zephyr in plum). This will check that I've avoided making mistakes in the charts/instructions and also let me adjust the number of repeats to suit a thinner yarn.

 

I'm also whizzing though knitting Laura Chau's Milkweed, a lovely scarf/shawlette pattern, in Hand Maiden Casbah. (Thanks for the yarn, Liz!). The yarn is gorgeous to knit with and the pattern charts are nicely done - what more can a knitter ask for?

 

 

 

Flossie, as usual, has been busy doing Sweet FA...

Shh! I'm busy...

 

 

 

Lace wrap knitted in two sections using hand dyed 4ply merino/wool blend, colourway Tiger's Eye; my own pattern. One section done, one to go...

Credit where it's due

Regular readers will know that I have whinged and complained about delivery services in the past. Many, many times. It's 7.45pm and I've just had a package delivered by Business Post. There's a big chunk of my address missing from the label and it took the delivery guy a while to track me down. So, I'd like to say a public 'Well done, Business Post'.

S'hot ...

... seriously hot. I'm having to keep the doors and windows shut during the day while building work goes on and my flat's like a toaster oven.

 

Flossie's out for the count in the coolest place she can find.

Knit & Natter at Scoop & Crumb

We had a different venue for Friday afternoon knitting this week - upstairs at Scoop & Crumb in Brighton. More nattering and scoffing than knitting took place; the ice cream sundaes were superb.

 

Cinnamon and ginger (I had this one - mmmmm);

coconut and Bounty bars;

 

strawberries and cream; vanilla and marshmallows

 

and another cinnamon and ginger. There were other sundaes, equally delicious, but folks kept eating far too quickly for me to take decent photos...

Whirling episode 2

Liz came to visit last weekend and brought drugs catnip for Flossie who went into whirling dervish mode at the first sniff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's all folks...