Mundane News

[hopless500]

It's trying to snow here in Leicester

Only little tiny flakes but it is a start, might get a chance to play after all

Trying to snow here too

 

[TVC]

Dispensing machine suitably inspected. Now sat in a cafe awaiting my bacon buttie.

 

[potsy]

Trying to snow here too

We have no sign of snow, it is rather chilly though, just been out in the garden with my coat on

 

[summerdays]

We have no sign of snow, it is rather chilly though, just been out in the garden with my coat on

Wuss! I thought northern types were meant to be hard... this southern softy has just emptied the compost bucket into the big compost bin at the end of the garden! Without a coat

 

[Speicher]

I have crocheted a baby blanket before but she wants this big enough to wrap up in. She has a thing about 'Joseph' stuff as she calls it, when i make her socks I don't make them all in one yarn, I just do them in odds and ends,and she wants the same for her blanket. It is a good way of using up all my old balls I suppose. I am attempting just a simple blanket and will just keep going until she deems it is big enough. Crochet does grow faster than knitting though, so that is good.

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/blanket-stitch

Thank you for that link. I have crocheted squares, granny squares, and then just carried on until it gets bigger. That pattern look fairly straightforward especially with the accompanying pictures. I will try crochet again when I feel like a change from knitting. I am currently knitting this:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/diagonal-knit-vest-wv-315

I like to get the diagonals to match up, as on the third one down. Getting the sizing right is easy tho, cos you just carry on increasing until you get the right width.

Should we start our own thread, so that Potsy and TVC do not get upset by our talking about knitting.
According to @potsy, I am the biggest Knitwit in the West.

 

[potsy]

Wuss! I thought northern types were meant to be hard... this southern softy has just emptied the compost bucket into the big compost bin at the end of the garden! Without a coat

Yeah yeah, you weren't sat out for 20 minutes like what I was though

Anyway, exciting news, I had a new visitor, need to see @hopless500 to tell me what it was

 

[biggs682]

Trying to snow here too

We have flakes falling here as well

 

[potsy]

Ok, my visitor may have been a Yellow Wagtail, saw it bobbing about on the ground and only had time to take this poor picture...

 

[hopless500]

Wuss! I thought northern types were meant to be hard... this southern softy has just emptied the compost bucket into the big compost bin at the end of the garden! Without a coat

I've just mucked out the coop - also without a coat

 

[Speicher]

Check out Attic24. She does some beautiful stuff and her patterns are really easy to follow.

Mine is all trebles, singles and treble treble as I call it and very multicoloured.I love crochet.

I really like the colours of her moorland blanket. I think it is the colours of knitting and crochet that are so therapeutic. Attic24 will be one of my new favourites, and the bonus is that she is based in England, and uses English crochet terminology.

Oooh, she shows how to do a granny stripe blanket. * goes off to find crochet hooks *

 

[Speicher]

Bob has never seen snow!

 

[hopless500]

Ok, my visitor may have been a Yellow Wagtail, saw it bobbing about on the ground and only had time to take this poor picture...

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It's a grey wagtail
(Poorly named cos they obviously are rather yellow).

 

[Gravity Aided]

Would Wagtails be in Africa or India this time of year? It sure does look like one, though.

 

[potsy]

It's a grey wagtail
(Poorly named cos they obviously are rather yellow).

Ah, now my book shows both but the grey has a black throat unlike this one, which is why I went with yellow wagtail.
But I trust your judgement, anyway it is a first sighting whatever it is.

 

[potsy]

Also spotted today..