Only a little update this week – there are lots of other yarns drying as we speak so hopefully there’ll be another update later in the week, or a large on next week (depending on how things go) – I realised that I should actually add some of the white yarn to the shop, since I keep wanting to use it in colour work and I though other people might too.

I am not exaggerating when I tell you that we have had this apple tree at the allotment for eight years and have had about 4 apples from it in that entire time.

Last autumn I told it that it had one more year to get it together or else…

and wow did it listen to me! (Only, you know, not really. 😉

Most of our apples are cider apples – which is what happens when you marry a brewer. These ones really are that bright.

Last year out house was full of half eaten apples because FB is great at starting them, but not so great at the follow through. This year LR is toddling about finishing them of.

The yang to his ying.

(Hopefully there will be a shop update tomorrow.)

This dye lot is called Candle Flame, but while knitting it up I realised it really should be called Honey Comb (next time!)

I’m knitting up a Plain Vest (ravelry link) by Anna & Heidi Pickles – in fact I’ve already it knit it once! I managed to get it knit up in about 24 hours – amazing what a couple of hours at a knitting group will produce, followed by a bit of sneaky knitting here and there – here being the park, and there, being on the floor at home while the children played and fell over practiced walking around me.

But the finished vest looked like it was only going to fit for about 5 minutes, rather than for the 6 months I’d hoped for. So I frogged the whole thing and started again!

It’s not a hardship! The yarn – if I do say so myself – is wonderful to knit with – it’s 100% British Bluefaced Leicester, and it’s really sproingy! And the colour is really cheerful and makes me smile when I knit with it. So it can stay beside me for a while longer and we’ll see if I can get a vest out of just 100g and a 6mm needle this time.