Category: WIP
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He is risen. I have fallen… asleep
When you are a vicar, Holy Week is a really big deal. This year I’ve upped the number of services slightly, plus we’ve had a big theme of exploring creative prayer during Lent. I’ve loved pretty much every minute of it, but it has been full on. Today, after two services and a home communion,…
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Daylight
It really is true that you get better photos of knitted stuff when you take them in daylight. That’s more like the intensity. Observant readers will notice that I haven’t actually knitted any more, just turned it over to photograph the other side. We had a little trip to A&E yesterday. It turns out it…
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Colour
Today I am enthralled by colour, the brighter the better. This is quite possibly the simplest knitting that I have ever attempted, but the irregularity of the stripes is keeping me interested. That’s not actually the colour that really has me gripped. No, that would be this: Only of course I’m blogging late at night…
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Weak
Yesterday I started another read-through of the Yarn Harlot’s blog. This is a really bad idea for many reasons, mostly linked to my responsibilities as wife, mother and office-holder, plus the undesirability of prolonged sleep-deprivation, the twitchiness of my left eye and the lack of any real plan for work tomorrow. Still, here’s a lovely…
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Spinning around
The spinning has made progress today. I now have two full bobbins of singles of the Jacob humbug fleece, so they are ready to ply. However, I only have three bobbins so, before I could ply, I needed to clear the third bobbin. On the third bobbin I was halfway through spinning a selection of…
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Two finished items
Last week on my day off I spent most of the day sourcing items for the boy’s world book day costume: he went as Asterix. Here’s the hat. I had to buy a hot glue gun to make the wings. Now that is an awesome new toy. Later in the day, I sat down with…
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Day off with the kids
Ah, half term. A day off with no school run, but two small people to entertain all day. T took control of the tablet this morning and did some major work on his mixel collection, creating some really rather creative Lego bits and pieces. J has discovered scissors, so we spent some time clearing up…
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Writing letters
This month I will be mostly writing letters. February seems to be the month for committing to writing a real old-fashioned letter every day. There’s Lettermo, which I have joined up with. There is also InCoWriMo. That is, of course, International Correspondence Writing Month. Tagline: One a day, every day, February. I’m following both the…
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Finishitis
Ssssh… Keeping to my rule of finishing two projects before starting another one, I should be in the middle of a cast on. Instead, I’m knitting away on the sock blanket scarf. In fact, this evening, I’ve been sewing in ends. There is something weird going on in my brain. Maybe it is because I…
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Lazy Saturday
There’s a certain time of day when it becomes too late to have a morning shower. Yes, it’s called the afternoon. It was my job this morning to wrangle the children, so I got up and made them pancakes for a (late) breakfast. I caught up on a couple of weeks of Desert Island Discs…