It’s not that 2010 is a bad year – it’s not. But it is giving me a bit of a kicking, what with one thing and another.

So things are going to be quiet around here for the next few weeks.

The shop will remain open, and orders will still go out asap, and hopefully I’ll get the new stock in the shop, but I’m getting very very little crafting done, and there really isn’t much to talk about.

Hopefully in a few weeks that’ll change.

Have fun in the meantime.

x

I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy christmas!

We’re just settling down to some mulled cider and the Victorian Farm on TV.

I’ll be back in the new year, with lots of things to share.

Best Wishes, and thank you for all your support this year!

xxx

(I was hoping I could post every day this week, since there is alot to write about. But there has been house stuff, and now a water leak, and somehow it’s wednesday and nine days to Christmas…)

However… in the autumn I was busy beavering away on a pattern, and it was released today:

This is Cirrus – for the Winter issue of Petite Purls. It’s knit in Rowan Felted Tweed, which I love.

(Did you know there is Aran and Chunky Felted Tweed now? <3)

Anyway Cirrus is kinda special because the yoke is knit as one piece – even though the sleeves are a different colour from the body. This amuses me a great deal. Also it gives a very neat edge where the colours meet. And because you knit the main part of the sleeves first, that gives you a place to put your yarn when you’re not using it.

This makes me happy.

I don’t think there are enough patterns out there for boys. But the upside of that, is that you get to go out there are make your own, and then share it. I’m hoping to do that again some time. :)

So there you go. And here’s the Ravelry link – since I haven’t put that up yet.

(I feel a bit bashful about this to be honest.)

There are worse places for a little boy to wait for his dad to finish work and come meet us. :)

It was the first of (I’m certain very very) many trips to the Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum.  As someone who was parotting the film commentary at the London Natural History Museum before the age of three, I’m looking forward to revisiting my dinosaur-loving past.

(Some of FB’s grandparents, who have been going with his cousins for the last five years are understandable, less enthused. But you can’t stand between a boy and the skeletons of giant prehistoric lizards.)

I really love these shoes. They were easy to make too. (The link to the pattern is here, at ColourKnits.)

Unfortunately they didn’t fit the boy. :( (As his auntie would say ‘Pudgy feet!!’)

But they’ve gone to a good home with his little friend MM. (Who’s mum has just come back to sewing. \o/ We have a sewing day in the works. Should be a ton of fun.)

FB will remain shoeless, especially now the weather has turned lovely.  Don’t worry about him though – he has cute socks. (Though none that I have knitted, mainly because his feet grow too quickly. :|)