No peeking, Diane!

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I’ve pinched this meme from Diane’s blog. She tagged me for the book one, but seriously, the books beside me now are Mr B’s programming ones and I’d lose the will to live trying to type out the stuff that’s in there. So!

The rules:

“The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.”

1. What was I doing ten years ago?

In late May 1998, I was a first time mother of a one month old baby and just about managing to remember to get dressed occasionally. I remember a lot about that time. With the younger small person, it seemed to pass in a blur, but I remember all the good parts: having a squidgy little person snuggling in my arms and feeling the overwhelming maternal urge which I never thought I would have. I also remember having bazoomas the size of footballs which leaked all the time, never getting any sleep and the evil midwives, but I digress.

Back then was also when I picked up the needles for the first time since I was a teenager and knitted tiny baby clothes in squeaky acrylic yarn. If I ever had another small person, they’d be spoilt rotten with pure wool and silk and Baby Cashmerino.

2. What are 5 things on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order):

- Knit something that has to remain under wraps for the time being, as much of my knitting is at the moment.
- Do some laundry so that the small people don’t go to school naked tomorrow.
- Make dinner (must do that after posting this!)
- Buy alcohol for the children to take to school. For the summer fayre tombola, I suppose I should add before someone calls me a bad mother who has naked drunken children.
- You know, I can’t think of a fifth thing!

3. Snacks I enjoy:

Chocolate, sadly. I’ve now had two weeks without even a nibble of something chocolately and those people who say you get used to not having it are LIARS. *sniff*

4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Buy an alpaca farm and a flock of sheep and make my own yarn. Also give a lot of money to children’s charities. It’s heartbreaking to see some of the things that children have to suffer in this supposedly developed country.

5. Places I have lived:

I spent the first 18 months of my life in Yorkshire. Then moved down south, where I lived in various places including the world’s tiniest flat and then here in Gypsy Towers which is in a horrible area and has no redeeming features but it’s home.

6. People I want to know more about:

I’m passing this on to: Kai, Cairi, Lindsey, Vikki and Megan Moggle.

So Issue 2 of The Inside Loop is online and I can finally share a couple of finished objects that have been hidden away.

Pattern: Clover
Yarn: Shelridge Farm Soft Touch Ultra, 2 x 50g skeins in “Clover Flower”
Needles: 2.25mm dpns

Pattern: Wild Strawberry
Yarn: Fleece Artist Italian Silk, 2 x 100g skeins in “Fruit Punch”
Needles: 3.75mm Addi bamboo circs

Summer knitting is always trickier than the rest of the year. But I hope that at least one of the projects in the new issue might be the one you take to the park or the beach this summer.

There’s the matter of issue 2 of a certain online magazine needing to be created. I’ll be back with finished objects that I can actually share next week!

Has it been a week since I posted already?! The last week disappeared in a blur of Finishing Important Secret Stuff for the magazine, without even a cupcake to tide me over. So it was nice to cast on something completely different to have a break from knitting to a deadline for a while.

I’ve started knitting Kai’s Lotus Lace Socks using the Wild Fire Fibres BFL sock yarn.

The lace pattern is really enjoyable to knit. Not too tedious and not too complicated so that I’m dropping stitches all over the place. I confess that I didn’t read the ribbing directions properly which is why I’ve ended up with a k1, p1 rib. Ribbing is the boring part of knitting a sock, so by the time I’d realised my mistake, I was almost done, so not about to frog it! The yarn is dreamy to work with. It’s striping slightly, but not enough to obscure the lace, which is good. Think I might potter about a bit today and knit some more.