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Weeks of sick are over and we are on the home straight to good health again. Osgar is back at kinder since yesterday, after five weeks of having him home. That was no mean feat I'll tell ya. FIVE weeks! So I got to hang out with my little Sadhbh by herself for a few hours, and it made me realise,  this is the first time I've ever hung out with a *nearly* two year old by themselves before.  When the other three kids were two I'd have been heavily preggo or nursing a newborn.  She is very sweet and funny.  I'm looking forward to next year. I feel like I am on the home straight with the baby thing too.

I'm knitting Milo number three with some Noro I picked up at a farmers market recently.  I only got two balls (she had four!) I don't know what I was thinking and I wonder why I always do this to myself.  I should have gotten all four.  When I saw the new Georgie Hallam design 'Griffin'  on Kate's blog I instantly thought of my two balls of Noro. In the end I had enough to make a nine months old size.  Unfortunately Osgar the intended recipient of said Griffin is four.  So, I decided that if I got a ball of black wool I could make him a Milo with a striped body and that might also look good.

I'm using Noro Kureyon and its a worsted weight so I'm knitting the 12 months old size with 5mms and the sizing is looking good at this stage.  I'm reading the girls the 'Mysteries collection' another of what seems like a million Enid Blyton books.

Happy Knitting!

Yarn Along

I'm sick. I've been sick for 10 days now, not that I'm counting or anything . . . I haven't been able to breathe through my nose or taste anything for a week.  I haven't even really felt like knitting . . .
But today I bit the bullet, knocked back a few of those nasty cold and flu tablets and knit a few rows.
( I really needed the cold an flu tablets to get myself to school pickup, the knitting, a side effect)
A friend got me a new 2.5mm addi (picked up at school pickup  - it was the needles I was after, not the children!) to replace my broken bamboo pins and the ugly socks that have been languishing for too long are getting finished - Tonight! I declare.

These socks of mine, they are a Noro remnant that I got at the kinder fete earlier this year.  I'm not sure if I get the attraction to Noro yet, but I seem to keep buying it at every opportunity, so there must be something to it.  These are very odd, and not very attractive socks - but I will wear them lots.

I'm not really reading anything, I'm just trying to breathe. The girls want me to read Tashi. I have no idea what this is? Do you? Should I read it to them? (7&6 yo) Have you got any good book suggestions for that age group?

 

Happy Knitting!

Yarn Along

It's school holidays here and I had two knitting friends and their kids over today. We knit and ate chocolate cake and drank spearmint tea, while the children ran around in the sunshine. It feels like Summer is on it way. Yay.

I'm knitting a Milo for my niece who will be one this month. It's autumn where she lives, all the way back in Ireland. I hope this will keep her snugly and warm this winter. It is very hard being so so far away sometimes. I'm using a skein of Malabrigo worsted and I think I'll just squeeze the 12 month size out of it.

I've got a big stack of books that I'm flicking through. They belong to our playgroup library. I'm the librarian, so I'm lucky enough to get the first look through all the new books we ordered last term. I would have loved The Children's Year about 6 years ago or so when my first couple of kids were tiny. Its really great to have access to these books via playgroup as you can't get them easily in the public libraries here.

Here's to more sunny days of knitting ahead .....

Happy Knitting!

Yarn Along

It's school holidays here and I had two knitting friends and their kids over today. We knit and ate chocolate cake and drank spearmint tea, while the children ran around in the sunshine. It feels like Summer is on it way. Yay.

I'm knitting a Milo for my niece who will be one this month. It's autumn where she lives, all the way back in Ireland. I hope this will keep her snugly and warm this winter. It is very hard being so so far away sometimes. I'm using a skein of Malabrigo worsted and I think I'll just squeeze the 12 month size out of it.

I've got a big stack of books that I'm flicking through. They belong to our playgroup library. I'm the librarian, so I'm lucky enough to get the first look through all the new books we ordered last term. I would have loved The Children's Year about 6 years ago or so when my first couple of kids were tiny. Its really great to have access to these books via playgroup as you can't get them easily in the public libraries here.

Here's to more sunny days of knitting ahead .....

Happy Knitting!