If last weekend was rare, then this was unprecedented! Yes my readers, he was away again! It was a last minute decision and he was only away for one night, and I had planned some chores this weekend so I didn’t quite have as much time to do things just for me.
I did wake up on Saturday with ideas of doing some shopping. Unfortunately it rained, and rained, and rained some more. It was so bad I much preferred to stay inside, despite being in desperate need of a new camera, with a few more bells and whistles than my current one – and a replacement battery for said ancient beast. But even this desperation did not encourage me to go shopping! So I had half a day and one evening to fill, but no operational camera to share progress.
However, fortune shone on me and my brother arrived carrying his camera just as I was contemplating braving the camera on my phone. So today’s photographs are courtesy of him. I should add that this wasn’t some form of sibling telepathy. Photography is one of his hobbies, so he carries his camera with him most weekends.
My crafting comprised 2 items. First I finished this month’s Janie Crowfoot mystery blanket instalment:
It includes the piece which I think is destined for the centre of the blanket and is my favourite so far.
Earlier in the week I received a package from The Old Piggery. I had visited their stand at Wonderwool in search of some scissor keeper kits but they had none. However, they took my email and promised to send me details. Now I really wasn’t expecting an email from them, because my previous experience of leaving my email at a show never yielded any results. Therefore I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email soon after Wonderwool offering me a choice of kits and providing photographs so I could choose the colours I wanted. This is the sort of customer service I like and I purchased several kits. So I spent an hour or so making one up yesterday:
Whilst visiting them at Wonderwool I was very taken with a skein of yarn that I spotted – the colourway is Moss and I managed to find two 25g skeins of it in laceweight. So last night, I wound the first skein and started my ‘June’ crochet scarf. I have only done a little but already the colour pools have stunned me. I hope it looks as good on film, but that will be a photo for another day – you will have to be patient.
Happy knitting and crocheting xxx
Agrarian Artisan 
Lovely scissor keeper – which I think I admired at Fridays knit group. Photos of your latest blanket are stunning as is the real thing. Hope you manage a shopping session soon!!
Scissor keeper wasn’t even out of the packet on Friday! But I did take the blanket pieces, which were well advanced. There didn’t seem quite as much to make this month.
I predict a camera shopping spree soon, but have also just searched the web and located a spare battery for ancient beast which is now on order.
Must have been someone else’s which I touched and admired!! Spare batteries are a must for these “new” cameras as they always expire just at the wrong time. Good job we have a camera on our phones! Ha H a!!