There is one thing missing from the picture - the enthralling knit lit The Friday Night Knitting Club. I'm definitely going to have to order the first one from the library as I couldn't put it down, and to be honest it's not my usual type of book.
It was so exciting getting the box, and the incredibly varied goodies in it - you are a supremely talented lot of ladies and I'm honoured to talk to you all via our blogs.
Sarah - thank you so much for the stitch marker rings - they are definitely going to be used shortly as I have purchased via a complicated procedure involving getting a friend in America to accept the kit and then mail it to me, the East Meets West handbag kit - look at it on Ravelry. The most complicated Intarsia and stranded colour work bag I have ever seen. I have a huge plastic bag of oodles of balls of wool from the kit in my living room and the instructions are presented in a little book !!!! The kit is sold by Knit Picks who only mail to the US and Canada, hence the convoluted purchase process.
I'm currently Christmas knitting - Secret Santas, an Aran for my brother, a pair of nordic style mittens for my sister (where the heck have those gone?) There's a shawl still slowly growing in the corner somewhere - put aside in favour of quicker projects, and a baby blanket for which I'm knitting up the squares in odd moments in the hope that I'll get enough of them made to put the blanket together before my colleague leaves work. There's also a crocheted bag and a knitted and felted bag waiting to be lined. When I can excavate the sewing machine from under the yarn drift.
Busy busy busy - I've just got to load Alex's first school photos onto my computer and get some prints sorted, order Amber's last school photos, make a coffee (actually that had better be first) wash all the school kits and work kits come to think of it - knit a few more rows of whatever leaps into my hands first .............
And things are only going to get more hectic :) I love it.
TTFN
