Custom Colours

This week I've mostly been doing admin, which is very dull and makes for rubbish photographs! So, here's one I made earlier... work-in-progress pics of a custom abstract mobile I made recently.

The colours selected:


The finished mobile pieces, ready to be sewn onto narrow burgundy ribbons for hanging:


It's always great fun working on these, and it's always inspiring working with colour combos I wouldn't normally use (I'm especially loving the combination of purple and mint green).

Knit in Public Day

Did you know it's world wide knit in public day soon?

Our knitting group are celebrating it with a picnic on June 12th and I was set the task of taking a suitably summer-y knitting photo for the poster...


The knitting project I'm working on at the moment isn't summer-y at all - a cosy scarf in lovely soft grey "mega chunky" yarn.

It's a great "instant gratification" project as the scarf knits up so quickly! Though I have frogged (unravelled) it twice so far as I kept knitting it too wide (it's ended up as only 10 stitches across). I've never used really chunky yarn before and I'm loving how it makes even the simplest of stitches look fantastic!

Shoe Love

Oh my goodness, it's another blog post about shoes!

I live in my Dunlop Green Flash trainers during the summer, and my old pair were getting rather worse for wear... so I've treated myself to two cheap-as-chips replacements in a summer sale.


Pink ones! And yellow ones! And both in the perfect hard-to-find half size! My feet are very happy.

Hello Summer

What fantastic weather we've been having!

Summers in England are notorious for the need to wear a cardigan at all times, and to have a back-up plan for any outdoor occasion in case it rains... so it makes a very nice change to be wearing sundresses and eating ice lollies :)


We don't have a garden, but to make the most of the weather we've bought a couple of fab stripey chairs so we can sit out on our balcony. I'm loving those colours!