Spiralling predicted:

"I think that the egg chairs may give her a DR. NO complex so beware, world domination is most definately close at hand."

And she was right!

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I love how the kitty seems to be gesturing too all the lovely goodies that came with her.

Obviously there was also chocolate – incredible Green and Blacks White chocolate – and obviously W and I scoffed it.

Also there was great organic white tea, but that got opened within five minutes of opening the parcel, and thus lives in the tea cupboard. 🙂

I’m planning to plant the seeds tomorrow, or later on this evening, as part of my time gardening on the balcony. (We have new plants that need to be re-potted, and as W pointed out over breakfast, there are still a ton of seedlings that need to be separated so they can grow on.)*

Anyways lets bask in the loveliness of the kitty:

Isn’t she lovely?

I love the fabric (where did you get it from??), and the buttons, and her little running stitch mouth. I love here little frayed-edge paws and ears and her bobble-choker.

I just feel very blessed and thought about. *grins*

Thank you so much spiralling You made my day! 🙂

*On a related note, I’m in the process of setting up a separate blog about the things we grow, and my gardening life. I’ll pimp it here when it’s up and running. 🙂

Yesterday was roasting-hot. So hot that I nearly turned down some proper wool in one of the charity shops near us. Luckily the knitter in me scoffed at such an idea, and I came away with:

Loweth Shetland Double Knitting Yarn. 100% pure wool. Loweth Woold Ltd, Leicester, England.

and:

Lister Bamboo. 100% cotton. Whiteoak mills, wakefield, England.

All this, for £7.50. Bargain!

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The socks are coming along, but two days working industrial sanders, plus another day of comatose knitting has left me with a very sore left hand, which I’d rather didn’t get any worse. So I may have to postpone finishing the socks until later in the week.  Instead I’m going to have a go replacing the zip on one of my dad’s fleeces, so that it’s ready when he comes to visit on wednesday. (That job has been on the ‘to do’ pile since christmas!)

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News from the garden:

We picked our first strawberries from the bath yesterday! Despite the plants having much more fruit then they did last year, I suspect that we will never end up bringing any of them home. They get eaten as allotment snacks whenever we’re there.

And lastly:

Sweet Williams will always have a place in our home. 🙂

Here is my backtack offering – A startled rabbit!

She’s made from Matchmaker 4ply, and knit in the round.  I threaded the buttons onto the yarn before hand, so that I could knit them into place, like you do with beading.

I wanted to keep to Wee Wonderful’s bunny pattern, but knit it rather than sew, which meant lots of measuring, and fiddling with the pattern as I went along, but overall I’m pretty happy with.

She has a gathered head – a homage to Jean Greehowe. 🙂

Poor thing, she does look startled though! She obviously needs lots of love and a nice view, to help her settle in. I’m sure, at Ariana’s she’ll do just fine. 🙂

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In other swaps and challenges news, I’ve had to drop out of the Nectar Gallery ‘Wall of Yarn’ exhibition. I feel like a total jerk and hate letting people down, but everything I tried just looked terrible. You know sometimes an idea really works and you get into a really creative groove? And sometimes exactly the opposite happens and you wonder why you’re even trying in the first place?

Well yeah I had one of those. 

I guess I figured doing something artistic, instead of useful and pretty was like riding a bike – even if you haven’t done it in years, you can just do it and it’ll be fine. But it’s obivously not, and with hindsight I feel a bit stupid for thinking it would be. It took years to earn my artistic skills and since I didn’t keep them up after university (or rather they morphed into something more practical) they are rusty now that i come back to them. I think maybe i need to back off the deadlined projects for a while?

Either way I feel really bad.