all hands on deck

So I survived a long day at The Royal ChelseaHospital at the Interior design show, the picture shows Dan and Eric hard at work putting up the stand on Friday with the beautiful wall paper in the back ground (I have to say if you need any pictures, paper, mirrors or fabric hung these [...]

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Film List

I pinched this from Andy’s blog but have added an extra bit I have italliced those films I haven’t seen all of
On Channel 4 they ran down the top 100 films as voted for by the viewers and so I thought I’d list them here, the ones in bold are the ones that I’ve seen [...]

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Sock Wars Update

So here they are all finished and complete, yes mySock War Socks , after a bit of a shakey start poor Yarn Monkey got all caught up in Hurracaine Gordon so has a few technical problems we were up and running late Friday Night.We had a reasonably busy day in Stash on Saturday so no [...]

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Dye Day

I had a wonderful time visiting Silkwood yesterday, I actually got a chance to catch up with Les and Tess and not just pass each other between shows and with Tess’ help I managed to achieve the colour I wanted on a hank of yarn for a friend, it took us about four hours [...]

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Here goes nothing

So here it is all being well this could possibly be our new house, we have a rough move in date but as Andy says until we physically have the keys in our hands nothing is for certain. I have to say that it needs a lot of work but it sounds like the [...]

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Wonderful suprises

Look at the wonderful suprose I found at workfor me yesterday, it is a wonderful hand knitted jjumper from Mary, apparently it turned our a bit over generous in size for her so she very kindly thought I might like it, she also left me the left over yarn apparently it is a angora, cashmere [...]

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Look at the beautiful detail in the cuff and hem, …

Look at the beautiful detail in the cuff and hem, not the great photo I know but there are beads in there. I am feeling alot more positive now my back is almost back to normal, and we have almost secured somewhere to rent but don’t want to say too much about it as don’t [...]

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And finally

Just to prove I am doing the odd bit of knitting amidst my moaning here is Swallowtail from IK, I have just got to the stalling stage for me I have just repeated the 13th repeat on the second chart and am tackling it between the ongoing struggle with the comission piece.I have also [...]

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Getting there

Thank you for all your kind thoughts, am feeling slightly better the back pain has gone from the sharp intense painto the burning sensation which usually means it is on themend.
This was the wonderful parcel I recieved from Becky that cheered my day. It was part of the swap bots magic yarn ball swap. If [...]

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This is what I found in the box.

This is what I found in the box. 

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