Easter Show 2010

So this year I am going to enter in the show.  I am really I am.

So far there is one finished item to enter - for the 'Take Over The Toy Cabinet' charge from the inner city group.  Aggie Bear should do nicely for this I think.  Toy Class 202 here we come.

Then what next - I am fast but a lace shawl really smacks of madness and I am mad but not that mad.

So I thought this would be a great opportunity to finish a long lingering project my fractal cardigan aka Frost Jacket from Knitting Nature - for Class 115 - 'Adult's Cardigan or Pullover, with sleeves, in yarn thicker than 8 ply'  - this would be two birds one stone - and finally a finished garment.  How this has lingered so long I am not sure at all.  I am scared about insufficient yarn but I just need to bit the bullet and go there.

Finally I thought this could also be an opportunity to make myself undertake something that has been brewing since earlier last year - the Fan Cardigan from Japanese knits.  I am intrigued by this pattern.  But what colour and what to knit it in?  This I thought could be a stash buster and I could use either Tango (choices there include charcoal, pink, beige or cream) or Bambi in pink.
Any way choices choices.......... I am leaning towards long sleeves though.

And now for something different

KNITTING

hello dear readers - apologies for the silence over here I have been busy with off schedule knitting .

Here is Nigel the dino - for the new show on ABC2 Giggle and Hoot - it is Giggle's very own dino and the actor apparently loves it - I wired it from head to tail and if you wiggle the tail the head moves.  This has amused the actor to no end.

Then there is the sock puppet which has been a bit of a saga - it is for a CBB's show and I had help with knitting up the second sock but then they wanted another so I am currently knitting a third one.

He is pretty cute though.

I am way way behind with my secret project and forget about my sock club for this year or anything for myself.  But I have been extremely naughty on the yarn front and scored heaps of Wollemise on destashes.  I got some gorgeous laceweight from Donna in the most delicous red.  S.V. now has a skein of his own which once I get back from him I will knit into socks for him.

It is quite mad this time of the year and we are about to have guests stay for the next 3 weeks from Saturday.  So I did a huge clean up yesterday and sorted out my stash in to summer and winter - putting the winter away in the roof, along with all of our winter clothes too.  So for the time being I have a smaller summer stash on display.  The only problem with this is that it is going to get lonely and no doubt more will appear.  S.V. was trying to suggest one ball in one ball out - how on earth is that possible?