A skein in the life

Simon, my lovely Hermes delivery driver, brought me a box of happiness this morning.      A new selection of notebooks is bound to make anyone happy, particularly ones with happy and motivational phrases on the covers: So why do I need so many? Well, I like to keep one for my knitting notes, a few for work related things and this new lot will be used for the online courses Im taking.  Im rather particular about notes and note taking, so if something isn't right, the page gets ripped out. See, many notebooks are required for my perfectionist note taking self.  I think the bees is my favourite from this set... and I shall try my best to Bee me :)  

Saturday nights in our house are not typical of other peoples Saturday nights. A wild party could be going on but, at 8pm, the party stops and the books come out. Its a thing. Well, last night, I wasn't in the form for reading. I had a thing I was itching to try. On a whim I bought a mosaic coaster kit from Hobbycraft in the shape of a bee. I really like it, its cute and pretty. However, I didn't want this one to be a disaster, so I bought a practice. A flamingo. Last night, I broke it out and starting my first ever mosaic piece: It was fun but not perfect. My version looks nothing like the picture. But it was my first go so I'm sure with practice it'll get better. I didn't have tweezers etc and was using my fingers to try and put the pieces in, I even resorted to scissors to force the bits into place. (NB, my philosophy is: If in doubt, use scissors. Be it gardening or crafting, scissors for everything!) I put the grout on before I went to bed and it looked a bit b...

Welcome to a skein in the life of me, Nikki. I'm a knitter who dabbled a few times in crochet but only really mastered the granny square (once I worked out how to keep track of corners!) So, I was having a thought yesterday that I should really concentrate on the wips and yarn that lives in the living room. I think I might have made a mistake by pulling it all out! For accountability purposes, I'm going to name the wips and the projects for the planned yarn. From back, left to right we have:     1. Flax for my brother. Started a year ago.     2. Squares for a rainbow blanket     3. Socks for my brother -  started 2019!     4. A newly started baby blanket The yarn will become:     1. The Habitation throw     2. Charity baby blankets     3. Millions of pairs of socks (really its 4)     4. Cardigan for my niece     5. Hitchhiker     6. Bunting My plan is to knit the wips and the yarn t...