I've been too busy to blog, staying up too late reading all of the Millennium Trilogy, organising our church pageant (on a par with herding cats), trying to learn a new job, watching The Waters of Mars and surfing the net as stress relief. It's a hard life but someone's got to do it.
The Christmas tree is decorated, the Pinky Streeters are getting in the mood, the mice are out. The advent calendar finally got started, a week late and there's still present shopping and house cleaning to do. College has finished, primary school finishes this Thursday and then both kids are free until next February. I love summer holidays, well the first few days anyway, after that I'll be counting down the days until school starts again.

A new blog to read:
Spitalfields Life

I knitted my first pair of socks on double-pointed needles. I have made a pair of socks before but they were baby ones, knitted flat and seamed up. The pattern is from a Stitch by Stitch booklet, possibly not the best pattern to choose to make as a first pair as it wasn't straight stocking stitch but you live and learn. For some reason, the first sock I knitted ended up slightly larger than the second one, I think I had just gotten used to using 4 needles by then but there's no way I'm unpicking it and starting again. They're also slightly too big for my feet so I have to find someone who might fit them, or grow bigger feet. Made with Regia Design Line 4 ply sock wool, colour 4257 which is called Landscape Twilight.

Too busy to think of wise and wonderful things to write here, I have series 4 of Doctor Who on DVD to watch and Part 6 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy to read.

Jacket from the Natsuno Hiraiwa pattern book I bought a couple of months ago. I made the larger size, from some material I bought at the op shop.

I love to look out my kitchen window and see these colours, they make me smile.

Feeling inspired by this article in the November Vogue.

Definitely not the shorts but the jacket. Will I make it? I don't know.