Well today at work I had my photo taken with the FA Cup!!! One of my colleagues had won the opportunity to have the FA Cup in his house for a day, and he had arranged for it to be brought into work.
So it was set up on a stand with an Eon backdrop and all and sundry queued to have their photo taken by the professional photographer - the DVD will be sent to my colleague and we all get our photos for free. Not that I am a big fan of football but it will wind up my brothers :)
Then to add to the excitement, the fire alarm went off and the building had to be evacuated. So the two security guards packed the cup up and trundled it down the stairs to the firepoint in the carpark - where we waited for half a wet hour before we were allowed back in again.
We don't usually get that much excitement at work !!!!
I think I mentioned that I had been knitting a double breasted baby jacket for Sue Hill who employs outworkers to produce her high end baby clothes - cashmere and merino mix, the yarn was incredible. Well she was pleased with my work as another package of yarn arrived today with a request for two round neck cardigans. This time the yarn is 80% cotton and 20% cashmere. Again, absolutely beautiful yarn, a dream to knit with, fantastic stitch definition and a lovely creamy oatmeal colour as well. I feel very privileged to be knitting these garments in such wonderful yarn. I don't even want to know how much it costs - but I wouldn't waste it on my mucky duo that's for sure :)
Working on my OU course I had to send a postcard to them detailing three things I'd like to do before the end of the year - and one of those is to finish something for myself. I have not yet managed to finish anything bigger than a pair of fingerless gloves and I have so many cardigan patterns waiting to be started ....
My little animals are very popular at work. I've already been asked for a shelf sitting chick - with long legs that dangle - and one of my colleagues has even asked for six bunnies even though I haven't even worked out the pattern yet!!! Good times.
I hope you are all having knitting fun and good times yourselves.
I'm so pleased your life has picked up. I'm also incredibly jealous that you've handled the F.A. Cup! You do realise that the totally gorgeous Steven Gerrard has lifted that cup!!! Not for a while granted, but he has lifted it! Please post pictures of your little animals, I'd love to see them - especially the bunnies - you should sell the patterns on Ravelry.
ReplyDeleteI have two men in my family who would have loved the opportunity to hold the cup.
ReplyDeletehow do you manage to fit all your projects in.You have so many projects on the go and all so different.i would love to see some photos.You must do very neat knitting to be asked to knit for a producer.well done you for doing all these things.
Wow 6 bunnies can't be bad - make sure you take a pic before they leave!
ReplyDeleteFootball is not a hot topic in our house but even so it must have been quite something to see the FA cup in all its glory.
Glad to hear you are enjoying the knitting - it must be fab to knit with such high end yarn and a real compliment to do it for a proffessional! So excited for you, if you are allowed to show us then we would love to see pics of the finished items. Sx