Awwww

Awww. Just beautiful.

And the DRESS?! Fabulous.

Sigh.

I hinted previously that I had some good knitting news.

Recently I have had a design accepted for an online knitting magazine. I'm delighted. First tho', it needs to be reknit in a different yarn and altered somewhat. Great. That will keep me busy. Fingers crossed Version 2 goes well.

No. Of course I can't show you anything. Not allowed, see?

So go back and admire the photo above instead.

Awww.






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Shocking disregard for one's readers.

Well! I knew things had got too busy for posting here in the past few weeks but I did think very hard about several posts. I am genuinely quite shocked to see that these never got posted.

It turns out that there's no wireless link from my brain to the blog? Pity.

No.

Wait.

Considering all the @#;%%@X! that goes through my brain every day, this is something we should ALL be grateful for. In the meantime, I was very pleased that the Tuar Mhic Eadaigh Mittens come 3rd in the competition.


MANY MANY THANKS for all your votes. Another post on the mittens coming shortly.

Oh ok. You got me.

As soon as I can then.

Oh yes, and some good knitting news to share. .

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Tuar Mhic Eadaigh Mittens

The St Patrick's Day Celebration competition on Ravelry is finally open.

Voting is open between Monday March 21st until Sunday March 27th 6.00pm Irish time. Any votes cast before that time will be discounted so please hold your horses. Presenting the Tuar Mhic Eadaigh Mittens.



These mittens are named after an area of stunning natural beauty in Co Mayo, Tuar Mhic Eadaigh (Tourmakeady) where they had their 1st outing before they were even finished. It was a VERY cold day and the mittens are sooooo warm. (Er...technically, I should say 'mitten' here since only one mittens was complete.)



I really enjoyed designing these mittens.

I love colour work and learned a lot about mitten construction along the way. Pattern coming soon when I can get it together.



My thanks to my lovely model G and my equally lovely niece L for the forest photography. And for full disclosure, yes, I ran out of yarn, just yards from the finish line so one mitten is a teeny bit shorter than the other.



So I guess I’ll keep them for myself. Tee hee.
And no, I am not canvassing for your vote. Vote as many times as you like, or not at all. Just enjoy and appreciate the work presented by the group. Check out 2009 and 2010 too. I'll be back with pics of my favourite entries from other years soon.

BTW:

BIG THANKS to The Constant Knitter for yarn support and encouragement. Hop on over there and check it out! .

Rising Numbers Update III

NINETY SEVEN!!!!

Wha?

Numbers falling not rising?

That's just not right people. Just not right.

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St Patrick's Day Competition

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Well well well. So it's time for this competition once more*.

Boy that was a fast year. It doesn't seem any time at all since I stood in O'Connell St finishing up last year's entry.


To make up for all my bleating lately about being really busy knitting but unable to show anything, here's a teaser for this year's entry.

Tune in on Paddy's Day for more.




* for those of you without Ravelry access, this is an annual competition for an Irish themed knit project to be completed and posted by 17th March. As you can see, last year my project really came down to the wire.


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Yarn Passion

Sweet Mother of Yarn, WHAT is this divinely soft lovliness?

It's Manos Del Uruguay Lace and it is silky soft beyond belief. Really. 'Tis.

I did think I was familiar with the delights of high-end yarns and not at all somewhat immune to the lure of a special skein of something. But by golly I was entirely and completely incorrect.

Of course there's a clue in the yarn content as listed - 70% Baby Alpaca, 25% Silk, 5% Cashmere. That's gonna be soft you'd think. But still I was stunned into a kind of yarn coma by the reality of its silky softness as I began to swatch with it yesterday.

Geez, and this has been in my stash HOW long? A YEAR? I should have had it on my pillow.

What? Oh yeah, it's for a super-secret-project that I can't even think about in case people near me can read my thoughts. So no peeking.

In the meantime, I'm just sitting over here. Petting yarn.

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Rising Numbers Update II

NINETY EIGHT!!!!!!!

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