Author: Nikki

… did sweet FA pretty much, and feel one heck of a lot better for it! 🙂 I think I have managed to scare away the sore throat, so that is all good.

Had my date on Thursday. It went well, but no “spark” there when I hugged him goodbye, so, hey, I’ve made another friend, but I think that is about that really.

Out and about again tonight, U35 Munch, and then ST. Should get home about 4am, and then of course, it is the Turkish Grand Prix is tommorow, so I’m glued to the telly from midday Sunday.

Haven’t got much knitting done, I will have to update the WIP percentages though.

I’m up to Row 17 on the sock, the second section on my mystery pressie, and 86/200 stitches on the needles for the base of the FMB. No work at all on Lauren, and Clapotis is going to have to wait!

PixelDiva, bless her, has offered to cast it on for me, and deal with the initial section, so I will take her up on that Tuesday!

Oh, and I finally started a Links page.

… that I’m too busy living life at the weekend’s to ‘blog it! 😉

How did the sewing go, I hear you cry? Well, it went well, but took far too long! I hate these last minute sewing projects that I seem to get myself into! It took about 7 hours all told, from pattern lifting to last stitch. The pattern I took, even after adding a generous seam allowance to it after drawing it out, was a snug fit, but hey, they looked fantastic like that, very stroke-able. 🙂

I was so terrified I had cocked it all up, but he put them on, and it looked fabby. So, happy Nikki!

The party went well also, we did get there late because of manic sewing efforts though. But it was a very fun time, and worth the effort I feel.

Needless to say, I didn’t get any knitting done over the weekend, too busy sewing and drinking Wine. 😉 I did fix the Initial website page last night though, so it looks how I want it to now. It also means that the whole site is using CSS-P.

I have a date tonight, (Although, I’m not sure I actually want to go on it!) so no more knitting or other crafty things… Unless of course I leave early! I have a new WAP to configure for home as well… I suspect that will have to wait until Thursday, as it is busy busy untill then.

Clapotis? I moved the swatch up to 5mm, and it seemed to knit a lot batter, so I frogged the swatch (no use wasting the yarn!) and cast on using 5mm needles. I’m up to row 10 on it, but I’ve spotted a mistake about 3 rows back, I’ve dropped a stitch on the edge. It won’t be hugely noticeable, but I’ll know it is there.

What I will probably do is frog it again and take it up to 6mm. That should make it really “floppy” which is what you want from a shawl! Cast on tommorow at Angel Knits. 🙂

Sock is going well! I’m up to row 7 🙂 I was out at NW1k2tog last night, and I blazed out 4 rows, as well as sorting out one ladies yarn tangle, and trying to write my first pattern… and boy, trust me that I picked something really really really awkward to chart out for it! *sigh* 🙂

I’m rather disapointed in the Addi Bamboo DPNs though. One of the points has split! I bought an Inox set from Texere, same time as my 9mm DPNs, and although they look the same, they feel totally different, and feel so much stronger! So, I’m going to transfer over, and take the Addi’s back to Loop.

Talking of 9mm DPNs, A French Market Bag got cast on when I got home from NW1k2tog and found the 9mm DPNs on the doormat, very odd knitting that first 8 stitches! So crowded on the needles!

The DPNs are far shorter than I envistaged though, they are only 20cm. Not sure what I’m going to do when I get up to “too many st for the DPNs, not enough for a circ” stage…

And just to show I’m not fibre obsessed, I went to John Lewis today and bought fun-fun fabric, so that I can make Karl his fancy dress costume for the party we are going to at the weekend! The party has a “Fairies of Midsummer Night’s dream” theme.. So, I’m going to wear this:


and go as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, and we decided that as my friend has a rather hairy chest, going as Robin Goodfellow aka Puck, would suit him well… hence the fun-fur. One set of Goat-legs coming up! Cover him in gold/green glitter, and see if I can get a set of pointy ears, and maybe a small set of horns for him, and we are away! 🙂