heehee. I wish I was back here

Instead of surrounded by the madness that is packing. I’m not sharing pictures of that. You can imagine, then add more mess and you’ve got the idea.
My wee holiday was great, and look, me and my little cousin (ok she used to be little) match. Haha.

And Jim’s birthday funeral, [...]

sorry for the lack of posting. I’ve been taking photos and uploading them, but actually writing anything to go alongside said photos has been another matter. I’ve been ill, and busy. Which is never a great combination. But, I’m going away for a few days, first to sit around knitting and reading, and to walk [...]

I carved these little stamps from a rubber to decorate the bag I’m making for my sock kit swap pal. Obviously I’m a little late in getting going on this, but I think I can get it sent out tomorrow. (Tomorrow afternoon anyway). I was going to try printing the fabric using the waxed paper [...]

Since I clearly do not have enough projects on the go, I started this yesterday. A simple top down raglan, with buttons down the left raglan line. It will probably be striped below the yoke, simply because that’s the only way I’m likely to have enough yarn. I need to find something that will go [...]

I finally convinced my dad to upload some of his photos to flickr. Go and take a look: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawnteague/
There are some amazing portraits of people in Thailand and Cambodia. I think all of these were taken with his leica.

well yes, I know that there is the whole work in progress fridays thing. But look how different I am, how fashionably late. Or, uh… forgetful and lazy, take your pick.
Anyway, on with the photos.
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I’ve been making these little crochet flower kirby grips. (I suppose calling them that is because at one point they were [...]

I have a slight obsession with eveness, that knitting seems to bring to the fore. I like certain numbers and hate others. Not necessarily even against odd, but some numbers seem whole while others don’t. Using the wrong numbers even when logic dictates that it makes sense in my knitting always feels like a struggle.
Anyway, [...]