Summer Catch Up

Posts have been a little sparse recently.  We had a lovely holiday in Cornwall, and this has been followed by a few days staying with family.

A few photo highlights...

I also got a bit of crafting done.  I have been working on something I'm doing for myself (more in a later post) and P's "Charlotte dress".  I have finally reached some more interesting knitting having completed a knit, knit, knit marathon of 10.75" in 4 ply yarn, with about 230 stitches per 'row' in the round! Slightly dull! Still, Now I am onto more interesting bits and I am really pleased with how it is going.

Fun.  I will be back home in a day or two, and I have a few things I need to get to on my sewing machine.  That, and there's a whole lot of tidying and cleaning to do...

Are you having a nice summer?

C x

A skein unravelled and some sushi

So I decided to follow Meg's advice and ball up my skein of knitpicks wool.  It was definitely a good idea, and I figured it'd take about half an hour... Alas no.  Given that I'd started knitting with it already, some of the skein wasn't as neatly packaged as when it first arrived and it took nearer 2 hours to ball-up- the entire duration of a Craft evening I had on Tuesday.  Still, it made for some fun group activity at times...

But look how lovely it looks now...

It turns out that 100g of 4-ply wool is actually quite a lot!
Still, it's done now (particular thanks to Georgie!), and is nice and neat, and the Charlotte Dress is making slow but satisfying progress...

In other news, we went to dinner with some friends last Saturday and rolled sushi for the first time.  It was great!  Although I was a bit of a coward on the raw fish front, and didn't get any more adventurous than smoked salmon, I loved the ones that I rolled, and had a generally lovely evening!

Rachel's looked incredibly professional (she is quite experienced at sushi-rolling), but even mine looked quite cool for a first-time attempt!

A fun, and very sociable meal! (Thanks Nick and Rachel!)

I hope you are enjoying a leisurely weekend.  We are enjoying the beautiful weather, and our sixth wedding anniversary!  Happy Saturday, Friends.

C x