It's in the bag

I have been whizzing through the knitting of the cotton shopping bags. They don't look all that big, but they do have a good stretch to them. And they are great for the height impaired of this world (like me) as they don't touch the ground when you have things in them which is great.


I am on the fifth bag now and the cotton stash is shrinking. One bag takes less than a day to knit, well less than a day while I am on holidays, next week when I return to work will be a bit different as there are about 12 hours in the day that I wouldn't be able to knit at all.....where is a great job where I could knit while working????? I guess you call that retired or owning your own yarn store, of which the latter sounds just perfect. Well that is a dream of mine, I would only do that if I had alot of money to own my own building and stock the store without having to borrow, as great as a yarn store or any own business for that matter, I wouldn't want the stress of having to worry about making enough money to cover all those costs associated with having my own business....a BIG lotto win would be fantastic right about now!

Well I am going back to knitting another bag, this one is all black and is looking pretty good.

Most of this knitting for the next few months will be for sale when a few of us have an exhibition at the Old Fire Station in Kiama from 18 - 22 May.

Alpaca is so soft...

I love the feel of Alpaca yarn, it is so soft against the skin. I bought a Scarf Kit from The Ardent Alpaca in Beechworth from Christmas money. I thought as I am knitting from stash I may as well do this one as it is fairly new to the stash.

The kit is Eki Riva Scarf with Button. It is knit with Eki Riva Sport 14ply Alpaca from Peru on 5mm needles. It is a light brown colour very natural looking. It knits beautifully, it looks and feels wonderful against my skin.

Other knitting has been more of the same scarf using Shadow Tweed and a cotton bag, so now I will get back to more cotton bags. I also knit a pair of felted boots, which when felted were a bit hard to get over grand-daughters heel, so I made another pair which turned out fitting me. I may put both in for sale at the Old Fire Station in May.


Family left this morning very early on their way back north home. We had a great time with them, it always goes way to quick, but it is only 5 weeks until we head north for their wedding.

Never to young...

to knit...at 2 1/2 years old my grand-daughter has been sitting on my lap and helping me knit some dishcloths and a scarf, every now and then she hops up and hold the yarn, then with a bit of my help winds the yarn around the needles and pulls the stitch through....I love it. She has always been around me knitting and on occassion has helped herself to my glasses and knitting. I am hoping she will have a real love for knitting as she grows.
While they are visiting I have been able to do a bit of knitting, in between playing with the grand-daughter, cooking some hot pink playdough and playing with it, and a weekend away to Mudgee....I did try many wines at the 5 wineries we visited, but only really liked two....Burnbrae "Moscato" and that bottle is already gone and I also bought a really nice White Port from Pieter Van Gent, it is delicious chilled over ice. I will be cracking that one open this weekend when our family is all together for a lunchtime BBQ. I also bought my parents a bottle of the White Port. Travelling on bikes can be great in some ways as we couldn't really bring too many bottles home, but having already finished the Moscato I am a bit disappointed that I didn't have more room.

I have finished 8 dishcloths, knit in different colours of Anchor Magicline in a honeycomb pattern. I have kept one and will be putting the others to my stash of things to knit to sell at the Old Fire Station in Kiama in May.

The blue baby set is the set that one first place at Albion Park Show and first place at Kiama Show, both held in January 2011. The Kiama Show winning came with the Isabel Rutledge Ribbon for "Best 3 Piece Baby Set" at the show. I have been trying to win that for many years, and now I have.

I started to knit last night a plain but nice, keyhole scarf, the pattern is from The Ardent Alpaca at Beechworth Victoria, I have saved the Alpaca yarn for me, but did use a ball of Patons Shadow Tweed knit on 5mm needles. What a very quick knit, which is helping me with my stash knitting....gotta love that.


I found a list I made of things to knit from my stash this year, which apparently on more closer observation is different to the list I am making on the side of this blog, not to worry I will mix them both together to get through the list.