Look at my cute baybeeee!! He is so funny, there was no music, just the voices in his head ha ha. He is so lovely and funny I love him so much. My favourite part is when he stops drumming to join in the backing vocals, or whatever the heck it is he is doing, ha ha ha.

I have just finished my final assignment for the unit I am doing at uni. I have thoroughly enjoyed studying this unit and I have learnt so much. It has been quite difficult at times, I think my husband was more supportive in theory than in reality, but I have managed to finish and I am quietly confident that my essay is a Pass. I did my absolute one-hundred percent best so that's all I can do. So my last workshop is Thursday but since I am finished I get to bludge until then. And then I have to decide what unit to do next...!

I started a little dachshund cardigan for Callie and ran out of wool so I am currently awaiting more for that, so I put it to one side.

Then I started another one, top down seamless plain cardigan in some Bendigo Classic that was originally going to be a cardigan for me (so I have lots of it!), and now I have got to the body part and have decided to put some intarsia on there, maybe a giraffe or something, but I don't have any other 12 ply so I have to get some more, so I will just put that aside for the moment...

So...um...I guess I will start something else at knitting group tomorrow!!! I might re-start the Olearia that went a bit awry recently. I started on the needles specified in the pattern because I have been getting gauge in most things lately so I didn't bother to check, but it was far too tight, so I need to go up a needle size, just like in the good ole days.

I saw this little skull jumper the other day at David Jones and thought it was lovely. It's just machine made out of acrylic of course, but I love the hood, how the stitches are picked up from the bottom of the neckband and I love the colours and the stripes. I am going to steal the idea for my own designs. I think I would put a cashmere mix or a really nice soft acrylic in the hood so its lovely and soft around the neck.

I took a photo of the price too. Eighty dollars for a machine knit acrylic jumper that is probably made in China. I wonder how much the machine operator was paid for their efforts. People always ask me to knit things for their kids and offer to pay me but I have never agreed to do so and I never would. I don't knit with cheapo plasticky acrylic for a start, so a quality acrylic or acrylic and wool mix is going to be at least five dollars a ball and a four year old needs about seven or eight balls of wool. And then there is the hours of knitting, it takes hours and hours to knit a jumper. That is when I get a chance of course. And then there is the time to factor in which is pretty precious to me these days and I have a queue a mile long of things I want to make that I will never get to.


And I have my doubts that people are even talking about something close to eighty dollars when they are speaking of this payment they want to make.
I love to make gifts for people though. Of things I want to make because I felt like it.


Anyway, not sure of the point of this really. Maybe the irony of something so cheap and nastily made being $80 in a poncy shop but real quality made with love in every stitch is viewed as being something you can buy on the cheap. Well, you can't. Not from me anyway. Go and ask someone's nanna ;)

Top pics is sheeps. There was a pattern but I just nicked the idea rather than follow the pattern. And the bottom picture is my socks wot didn't win nuffing at the Show. Callum  has worn sheeps nearly every day, its been so cold lately.

I think the pink jumper that I mentioned in my last post is going to jumper heaven. Its sitting on my knitpicks cable with my 5mm's and as soon as I take it off for another project then I am going to pronounce it dead. I hate knitting it and I have a million other things to do that are more fun.

At the moment I am dyeing some Bendigo Luxury 10ply. Its cream, I bought it for another project that is now also dead, Rest in Peace Arwen. I am dyeing the yarn orange and will probably make a Baby Yoda out of it.

I also have another idea for a jumper for Callum. I have seen an idea that I am going to nick and do my own pattern. But in the meantime I have started an Olearia cardigan for my next door neighbour's little girl.

Anyway, all this lingo. At least I know what I am talking about.

Mostly :)

Been a bit absent lately, have been busy but nothing worth blogging about unfortunately.

I have one more assignment to go before I finish my unit and then have to decide what to do next. The government has just kindly announced that in the next budget they are removing the substantial discount for paying your uni fees upfront. Thanks very friggin much, just when I start, how bloody typical. So there's an extra couple of hundred dollars down the gurgler.

Speaking of things that gurgle, our dishwasher has packed it in, so we went shopping for a new one today. And we looked at vacuum cleaners as well. How very domestic.

In knitting news, I am currently knitting a jumper for myself, out of Jo Sharp cotton. I bought it ages ago and it cost a lot of money, and I had a project in mind for it, but then decided not to go ahead, so its been sitting there. I impulsively cast on for this project after a lady at knitting group made it. But anyway, I already hate it. I hate knitting with cotton, and I hate Jo Sharp cotton the most. I am not sure if it will survive, but part of me wants to beat it at it's own game, because if I abandon it then its going to sit there forever, a sad little pile with part of the cotton knitted, from over a hundred dollars worth of poxy cotton, leaving not-enough balls of unknitted cotton to do anything. It does happen around here, but not usually with that much expense.

I have another project which is adorable and I am enjoying. A teeny babby sweater. But more about that later.

I have a few other things to finish off. I am a terrible finisher-offer. A great starter and a great muller-overer, but not a great finisher. I take the finishing work to knitting group because I can sit and yak and it forces me to get it done because there is nothing better to do.

Sewing group has started up at the same place as knitting group now. For two hours every Monday. So I sit and sew for two hours every Monday while someone watches my kids for two bucks. Then on Tuesday I sit and knit for three hours while someone watches my kids for two bucks. Sewing group was my idea. I just need to think up a few more groups for all the other days of the week and I will never have to look after my own kids ha ha ha.