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I had the camera out for something else when I spied these bronze cast  pieces.  Not terribly valuable, but gifts so I value them.  The lizard in the gumnut used to rest in a potplant.  Not much around here like that now where I can easily see them, so I've brought it ...

Some of Ailsa's superwash sock wool, done as bed socks for Miss Seven.  That's her in right sidebar when she was Miss Four.  A quick easy knit.  Pinkish, but not in your face pink.  Hopefully the colour will be acceptable.  She's beginning to move away from the "any ...

Traditions are often good things to have.  My sons were always pleased to be allowed to choose their birthday dinner, even if guests  were once surprised when one chose savoury mince as his birthday meal.  Holiday traditions from my own childhood are still remembered fondly and ...

This is a photo of a photo, a fairly old photo.  It was taken a l-o-o-o-ng time ago on the beach at Bundeena in Sydney. No matter where I put the photo to take another shot, there were reflections which make the image fuzzy. The little girl in the middle is me, probably just turned ...

A finished object on top of my bed and it's been so nice to have another cover as well as the sheet the last two nights.  This is the second Ishbel beret from Ysolda Teague that I've made.  It didn't take long, flew off the needles.  I think this one will go to a small ...

Here's Wesley in his new aviator hat from Just Jussi .  It's still wet so as his head is bigger than a newborn's, the hat stayed there just  long enough for a photoshoot.  I didn't want it stretched.  It was  a very quick and easy pattern.  If you have friends ...

I tried last week to take a photo of this warrior.  However the light was very strong and the camera did not cope too well, obliterating his lower half. Son and DIL bought him many years ago on a trip to the Hunter Valley.  He's made from old tractor parts and bits of farm ...

The Raspberry Ripple oops, Heirloom Jigsaw pink sock wool was very hard on the eyes for me to knit.  Very definite stripes indeed and very, very pink.  Now one granddaughter seems to have grown out of the pink stage, the next is moving past it and the third still likes pink.  ...

I thought I had not done much and that the move had really slowed things down.   Just as well I had kept a record in my super-useful Moleskine knitting book or journal.  It has all sorts of things in it - ideas, records, finished objects, stash bought and hopefully used, even books ...

There's not much point in showing pictures of more of the same.  I've now finished 4/15 of the repeats of Chart B in the Brandywine shawl.  I'm happy with it.  It's not difficult as the centre triangle increases every two rows and the outer border of lace remains the same. ...

Well, any of you who thought I could not resist the thought of another shawl for my next project were right.  I've been sitting knitting Chart A of Brandywine, details in post below. I mean,  I do have a very boring 8 ply scarf to finish which I drag out as a last resort ...

I was looking through the latest patterns on Ravelry, partly because I could not face trawling through almost  a hundred free shawl patterns, let alone almost 400 pages of shawl patterns and partly because I was killing a few minutes before dinner. I found the Brandywine Shawl by Rosemary ...

One cowl finished and wet.  Because it's still quite wet, it shows darker than it really is.  It's Bendigo Luxury 4 ply, called 'bracken" and more olive green than shows here. It's a present for DIL, along with some earrings bought at the National Library shop in Canberra.  Her ...

The heat has brought out more blackberries growing on the wall at the end of our yard.  Well, red blackberries, possibly also described as green.   Certainly unripe as yet and green just as raw prawns are called green. However, in the heat we have today, mid-30° before mid-morning ...