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It’s arrived…..

5th November 2010 tenfootjill Knitting

..and I love it 🙂

I’ve been a bit disillusioned with my knitting lately. I can’t seem to get very enthusiastic about anything, I keep starting things and either leaving them or frogging after only a few inches because it’s just not working for me. I started Mr Greenjeans in some Patons Jet in a lovely bright red, this was after frogging the Central Park Hoodie I had started and decided I wouldn’t like! I also started, with enthusiasm, a February Lady in Debbie …

This week I have….

13th October 2010 tenfootjill General, Knitting

I saw my eldest son off to University on Saturday so it was a bit emotional for me but made much easier by the fact that he was looking forward to it enormously and settled in really well immediately. He’s gone to York to study Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence. We had a time slot to arrive in, between 9.30 and 12.30, I was tremendously impressed with how smoothly things ran, considering around 600 students …

So much to knit, not enough time!

7th October 2010 tenfootjill Knitting

Firstly, I’m not under any pressure, I rarely knit for others so it’s entirely up to me what I knit and when. It’s the deciding that’s the problem at the moment. I’m currently on the last leg of my Ishbel, I’ll get it beaded and finished by the weekend I think. I have a couple of summer tops OTN which have been around forever and are likely to be around for much longer before I …

Gardening and knitting.

23rd July 2010 tenfootjill Gardening, Knitting

My little back-yard garden is coming along nicely, considering that I really don’t give it the attention it should have. I do water it most days but haven’t been overly active on the feeding side of things. I should really because my tomatoes and cucumbers are abundant with fruit just waiting to ripen. Whilst they were still very small, I thought they were not going to survive so I planted a second crop as back …