At long last Llani is finished.  I found this to be a frustrating knit, although I like the end result.  I had to buy another ball of yarn and even then I have not put the arrowheads on the sleeve cuffs as I thought I might again run out of yarn....

It's somewhat hot through  Sydney today, forecast maximum of over 40 deg C.  I have two finished objects so was up early this morning to put them in to soak.  If the weather is reasonable, I'll take photos tomorrow.  I'm sure they are dry already....

I have had a windfall of prizes over the last few weeks, unexpected but very welcome. I've never been what some would call a lucky person and rarely win raffles and such  things. These prizes, three of which came from giveaways on blogs have been...

I've been enjoying knitting blogs for many years now, since I came back to knitting.  The forerunner of this blog was started in 2004 on the old Blogger platform.  One of the first I started to read was Stitches of Violet by Marguerite in Michigan,...

When I was teaching , this was one excuse that I wasn't given, although there were others somewhat like it.  Just about as credible. What I'm about to relate is probably just as credible as the dog story, but, let me assure you, it's quite...