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FO Friday - all about the bright pastels

 I finished  Backlit . Since I am currently obsessed with Easter egg pastels (or V summer drinks, if you prefer) you can imagine how much I love it.  I did do a little bit of colour management on the body, to prevent the bottom colourwork ending up not contrast enough.  It's a really practical garment for this time of year, really wearable for warmish days and nights with a tiny bit of chill to them.  The pattern is only available in a book called Knit Happy with Self Striping Yarns by Stephanie Lotven. I've knit her patterns before. She's a good designer. I bought an ecopy of the book on Amazon a few years ago. I couldn't print the pattern. The charts were light green on dark green. I ended up using the clip to to copy them into a word doc and print them. it was all a bit unpleasant. I think Stephanie is releasing these as individual patterns, so if you are thinking about knitting this delightful top, I would wait until it comes out in a better format. Despit...
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Linky Wednesday - the one where I consider naming conventions

 Sometimes I struggle with naming these Wednesday posts. At the beginning of 2024 I tried numbering them (1/24, 2/25 etc) I was considering trying that again, but when I went to look for those posts, I discovered that I like all my posts with the silly, best I can find a theme titles. This week I finished  The Bone Harp  by Victoria Goddard ,  and started    Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall .  All my friends have read this romance, and when I found it in Kobo Plus I was quite pleased. I'm enjoying the book, which is also a nice change. Next up is another Kobo Plus book (I've only got another two weeks on my current subscription, and then I'm going to catch up with my NetGalley books).  I've got a few to choose from, mostly romance and women's fiction. I'll decide when I get there. In audio I finished The  Heir Apparent  by Rebecca Armitage  (well read but told in a really repetitious way). I decided that, since I don't seem to be e...
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Following the inspirational pics

I may have mentioned that Richmond Knitters has chosen the Celeste Sweater by Petit Knits  for our annual Bendigo Sheep show knitalong. I've decided to knit the 8 ply jumper in 4 ply, because I get more wear out of my lighter jumpers. i decided I wanted to make it on easter egg colours. i was sitting on my balcony, pretending to meditate when a tram went past with an ad on the side that summed up the colours I wanted. I didn't grab my phone before the tram had moved on, but i did a google and found the ad: Last week Katie gave me some left over Bendigo yarn in white, and I dyed it up for this project: I'm nor sure if I'm going to go with the four colours above, or sub out one of them for the mint leftovers of the top I just finished. I know the photo if would have looked nicer if I had skeined up the mint, but i certainly don't have time for that!  I'm so chuffed how the colours came out. Here they are with the background colour: Sometimes my dying results can ...
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Fo Friday - this one is more seasonally appropriate

 Every so often I like to pull out the polymer clay. The run up to Christmas is a really fun time for this. I don't decorate (or celebrate Christmas, except in the most secular of ways) but I'll take any excuse to craft! This year I received some 'cookie cutters' which I thought would make perfect ornaments, and rather large earrings. I'm chuffed with how well they work with polymer clay. This is something I was trying with a layer of white over a base of transparent I love these trees - the one s with pink and purple will be earrings for Kris, the rest gifts: I think these gingerbread men look psychotic, but everyone I've shown them to thinks they are cute: And now I'm all polymered out! this weekend I'm going down a different path and am going to dye some yarn.
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Linky Wednesday - the one where the sun is shining

  Summer has been slow to arrive, but today it is 28 degrees and sunny, and after I finish work I'm going to sit in the sun and read. I'm currently reading  The Bone Harp by Victoria Goddard  , and although I usually find her books quite compelling, I'm finding it hard to keep focussed on this one. I also didn't love my previous read  How to Date Your Dragon  by Molly Harper  which was paranormal shifters. Maybe I need a break from fantasy. I might read  Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall  next. It's available on Kobo Plus, and all my friends read and loved it. I want to have finished my audiobook first  The Heir Apparent  by Rebecca Armitage , which I thought was going to be romance and while it has quite a bit of romance, it's also got quite a lot of family drama. I'm enjoying it, but don't want to eye-reading and earreading books on similar themes. they might not even be that similar, I'm not much of a blub reader, I'm knitting away on...
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Fo friday - a shawl in time for summer

 I wear shawls all year round, but Elise wears them more like scarves, to stay warm in winter. Still, I was thrilled when she asked me for a new shawl in purple. I bought the yarn in Bendigo and even more thrilled when Joji announced a one skein mystery shawl knitalong.  The MKAL was a lot of fun. Her Ravelry boards are very active, with a lot of chatter (also some people whinging because the mystery shawl has some repeated elements. Unlike another recently finished MKAL, this one hangs together as a finished object. it was a lot of fun to knit. Simple, but just interesting enough keep me going. The weather is going to be quite crap this weekend, so i might give it to Elise now, rather than waiting until autumn. If I do, I'll try to get photos and I'll update this post. if not, I'll get photos next winter! 
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Linky Wednesday - the one with no theme

 I really couldn't find anything the link my activities this week! After I finished    Empire of the Dawn  I went back and finished    Scary Monsters  by Michelle de Kretser . It felt good to tick it off the list, but that's all I can say about the second half of that book. Then I decided it was time for something lighter, so I read  Autumn Falls  t he first in the romance series I started a couple of weeks ago and  An Occupation of Angels , a Lavie Tidhar book about angels in the cold war. It's even weirder than that sounds! Now I'm reading  How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper  a paranormal fantasy included in both Kobo Plus (which I have rejoined) and Audible Plus. I only started it yesterday, but so far it's fun. I'm listening to a NetGalley review copy of    The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage.   Princesses! Royal succession! Family drama! It also has the most perfect narrator. I am enjoying it. In craf...
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