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| Spice Cross-over cardi/top from Jaeger no 9 in dusty pastel stripes, 30 ish colours, random. Anjuli Jacket from Jo Sharp's Rudgyard's Story. In a wool-cotton mix, with a tad of lycra to help hold the shape. Feels a little like a bathroom mat. Odd but nice. |
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28th August I've nearly finished the other front of Anjuli, despite having to frog lots, just because I knitted too far. My mini-holiday has done me good. Blissful no-need-to-get-up lie-ins, and I slowly calmed down and can even read again. And knit too far. Well, better that than my previous state, in which knitting was not an option. Looking back, it was exactly the feeling I had when I was teaching full time. No space in my head, and constant exhaustion. Note to self: Don't ever, ever, ever go there again! Tozzy got her French GCSE result through today - another A. That makes 5 A*s, 6 As and a B in the RE short course. Just had to say that again, as if I hadn't been telling everyone anyway. The French results were a whole week late. What is going on? 25th August Anjuli, Anjuli, Anjuli. Lots of it. More than was designed, actually. Knitted too far up the side and had to frog about 6 inches to incorporate sleeve cast off in correct place. Am now almost back to where I discovered the mistake. I bought some rather odd variegated cream / coffee coloured cotton the other day. Delicious colours. Think I'll make a 3/4 sleeved fitted top, buttons up front and back, so I'll work 2 mid-front to mid-back pieces and incorporate the sleeves, thereby minimising thicker bands of colour where fewer stitches are worked in one row. Jamtart knows what I mean. Another one to add to the list of proposed projects. In the meantime I'm being really good and finishing Anjuli before I start the Phildar top. 21st August Proud mum reporting Toria's GCSE results, through today: 5 A*s (Maths, Double Science, History, English Lit), 5As, 1 B in RE, French results still outstanding. She is just beginning to take it in - party away! 20th August Trying to get back to normality again. Er, what is normality? Not easy after all the excitement. Work is frantically busy. I thought everyone went away in August. This weekend I am on another course and next week I am taking Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off for my summer holiday :) I am going to do some knitting. And writing. I think I need to get back into the writing. And I won't read any bodywork books. Proper holiday. Yegods, do I need one. But before all that, we have Toria's GCSE results tomorrow. I am nervous, she is nervous, Dad is not nervous, the boys are quietly amused and anything but nervous. My third and final passage through kids' GCSEs. I am so frazzled, I can't actually settle down to knit - I feel as if I have to keep going through exhaustion and overload. Or like the kids when they were very small and got overtired and just cried. Do you know the feeling? I could do with a couple of hours meditation to ground myself and get perspective again. Am I going to do that? Just half an hour? Hmmm. My oldest, Chris (mechanical engineering student), has a holiday job on the local farm(s) tractor-drivering, repairing bits that fall off tractors and welding them back on again, calf-wrestling and anything else they throw his way. Today it's his turn to accompany the subcontracted muckspreaders on their spreading spree. Oh joy. Now that's a nice, simple life style. I'm listening to Annie Lennox' new CD 'Bare'. Her voice is mostly still there. Her songs hit the spot. I think I've been there, too. There's a Smog update - Tamara's mum's cat. The one who was a little rotund and couldn't hack weight watchers. Well, Smog has had a routine visit to the vet, who is now saying that with all her newfound outdoor lifestyle (I believe it involves mouse-hunting), she must be careful not to lose too much weight! Smog's the girl!!!! I'll post another pici if Tamara sends one. 
I've been inspired by the beads book, and I think I might knit the Phildar top with a beaded edge. If I can sit still long enough to cast on.17th August Sussex U-17s women have won the National Championships!!! They beat Yorkshire in the finals on Saturday in Bristol. Took knitting but didn't do a stitch. 11th August Have dragged an ancient linen pullover out, which I knitted 20 odd years ago. It's nice and cool. You can just see the travelling cables. Over the years it has got wider and shorter, but still drapes beautifully. 
A marvelous Danish knitting blogger Bettina has linked to me. The language looks a little like Dutch, and some of it I can guess at. 9th August Anjuli is still coming along... I'm finding it's taking a long time at the moment. Too much work and not enough calm time for knitting. However, this is how it's looking:  My friend Tamara is finally getting a cat, a Siberian Forest Cat in Mackerel (silverish stripy / tabby?). Beginning of September is when the kit will be ready, and I can't wait for picis. She's had *over a year* without a cat, and that's far too long. She now needs a name for the little beast (a boy). As she has spent much time in Russia and the kit is Siberian, the name needs to reflect the Russian connections. Any ideas I can forward to her? 2nd August evening Wahoo, hoorah and wayhay! Sussex won, wewonwewonwewonwewon!!! Well, the girls won, I didn't really have anything to do with it except paying the match fee and ferrying darling daughter and her damp whites to somewhere in Kent. However I did score for them, which means I can say IscoredIscoredIscoredIscored!!! No, that doesn't sound right either... anyway, Sussex U17s won and are now in the finals against either Yorkshire or Warwickshire, who battled it out today as well. This will take place on 15th August in Bristol. Those of you who have any idea at all of British geography will have noted already that Bristol is about as far away from Sussex, Warwickshire and Yorkshire as one can get. Good old ECB. 'Twould be too simple to arrange a match, say, half way between the North and the South, rather than tucked away in the furthest Western point one can imagine... Toz got 2 wickets for 17 runs off her 9 overs with 5 maidens. And then she got a golden duck... 2nd August Sussex U17s are through to the southern finals (semis, effectively), so we are playing Kent today. Somewhere in Kent. Toz thinks she got a map from the manager. I'm going to take the bathmat (Anjuli), but I may be scoring. Toz has just announced from her bed, 55 minutes before we are due to leave, that she hasn't seen her whites since she played for the men last week and they are still in her kitbag... Hero Dad is throwing them in the machine and they will have to dry on the way up in the car. Or she will wear them damp. Sussex women seniors won last week's championships in Cambridge - couldn't get up to watch them :( Then, as winners, they played the South African women and beat them too. 1st August The Phildar top knitalong has started. See here. |
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