tow hearts on her toes

One of my dear friends back in states had a baby girl V back in May. I of course mailed over a package filled with cardigans and wee hats. Now I am putting together a second package to send over. Her mother asked if I could knit V some socks because the normal socks make her feet clammy. Auntie Kelebek to the rescue!

It is another pattern from New Pathways for Sock knitters. The original pattern had three hearts on it but since this sock is only 4 inches long I only did one heart. The yarn is Rowan 4 ply soft and a wee bit of Jitterbug for the darker blue heart bit.

I find knitting baby socks immensely satisfying. They are so cute. I mean seriously think how tiny a foot must be to fit into a four inch sock! And they get done in a flash. I will also be making V a cardigan. I will use the Helena pattern because the last one I did turned out adorable!

tow general grumblings about the postal service

I am desperately waiting for my final swap package to arrive. The mod said it was mailed out last week Saturday. It’s not that I am worried my partner didn’t mail out the package. I am worried that the Australia post will lose the package. I was thinking if this was any other company or service people would not put up with the way the post office works. Think about it. You pay this company for a service. There is no guarantee that they will provide you with this service once you paid them and trusted them with your package. If they lose your package, though luck. If you need them to tell you how they screwed up you need to pay extra ahead of time so they can tell you what happened to your package. Even then there is no guarantee that they will find your package. Tell me if this is madness or not?! Maybe if it was just money I was losing I would suck it up and deal with it. But these are packages, important items, hand made things –irreplaceable if lost. Can you tell how irritated I am with the postal service?!
I don’t have pretty pictures of my swap to show, so here’s a photo of the sock I am working on.

I am using one of the handspun yarns I recently bought. It’s from “Bizy Hands” on etsy. The pattern is from my favourite sock book of all time, “New pathways for sock knitters.” You can’t really see the pattern all that clearly but I really dislike knitting plain socks –it gets too boring too quick.
I have finished the Soy Scarf I was working on.

It’s the same pattern I used for the “I wear high heels in winter scarf” My winter jacket is gray so I will be able to wear it in the winter. Hard to imagine winter right now with the air conditioner on, but it’ll come eventually.
I also got around to photographing a scarf I made ages ago. It was the first thing I’ve ever crocheted. It’s the One Skein Scarf. I recently frogged the scarf and re-crocheted it. It was just so poorly done that I would never wear it. I kept it for two years for sentimental reasons but then I thought better of it.

I went to Gisborne this past Sunday for the knitters meeting. My dear friend Mel once again had me over at her house then drove us to the meeting. It is all sorts of awesome to talk about knitting and crocheting with people other than my hubby. Poor guy he only listens to me because he loves me!
Mel had a surprise gift for me! Look,

She dyed this yarn for me! It is a very nice merino laceweight yarn from the knitter. Isn’t it lovely?

tow swan wing scarf

I found out through Lifehacker that today is “International Caps Lock Day.” This made me remember a memory from my childhood. My dad became a computer programmer back when most people didn’t know what a computer was. One time when I went to his office he let me type on his computer. I just pushed the keys to write things in small letters. Than my dad showed me the awesome key that let me write in BIG LETTERS! A fond memory indeed. Here’s a photo of me when I was much younger with my dad.

Based on that awful haircut I must be around 6 years old, so this photo is from 1989 or 1990.

I finished the scarf I was working on for the Australian Knitters group swap on Ravelry. I have posted photos on it while I was working on it. I gave it a nice bath last night…

And blocked it using my awesome new wire kit.

The wires made the whole process about a billion times easier!

Today I took of the wires and marvelled at how beautiful it turned out!

Here’s a close up of the stitch work

I hope my swap partner likes it! I am so very excited to receive my swap item!!

I received another swap item today, yay! Through a very long story I ended up with a spare Ravelry tote bag and I offered up to swap it for sock yarn. One awesomest user offered to give me a skein of Sundara for it aaand it arrived today. Look how pretty!

The colour way is called Caribbean. It is destined to become a lace scarf of sorts once I get through the other lace project I am working on.

We went to a wedding today. It was a lot of fun catching up with people I met at the henna party (for the same wedding). I feel good that I am getting out more and socialising with people. Yay for making friends! Here’s ACA and me at the wedding,

It was a tiring day. I can barely keep my eyes open so I will go sleep.
One more thing before I go, I would like to offer my congratulations to my dear friend Jess for the little bundle of joy that will be arriving in May. Double, no wait triple double YAY for Jess!! When I told ACA that my friend Jess was having a baby he said “So, you’ll start knitting things soon?” To quote Mrs Palin, you betcha!
kelebek

tow Burcu gets married

My bff Burcu got married. I am just amazed that we are both married now. We used to talk about when we would get married the nights I slept over at her house. She wanted a Muslim black man with dimples, he had to have dimples aaand look what she got!

Custom order

And here they are cutting their cake

I get teary eyed looking at these photos. I couldn’t be there for her big day. They are soo right for each other. They waited a long time for this to happen! So happy for them. I wish Allah to grant them a lifetime of happiness!!
Of course it helped that she wrote her name under my shoe when I got married last summer. See I told you it works!

I have more to write about Bendigo sheep and wool festival and my new yarn acquistions but I am a bit emotional at the moment to write anything else….

Burcu and I in 2001. I love this girl!
kelebek