busy busy my catch up life and crochet blog..........

A love for EdinburghThe dead space that's between the city street the hill/gap then the castle at night its just breath taking/ like hog warts the castle is in the air. black all around.  Very cool. funnily reminded me  a little of stockholm Gamla Stan cobbled old town and some of the architecture very similar/Gothic I guess.

Edinburgh mini break with my teen, I have been very lucky and visited quiet a few places but it seems never close to England so this years mission I set my self, train trips to the following.

Scotland
Ireland (fly maybe!)
Wales......(once a day trip in my youth) no memory's just a train trip;-(
Edinburgh, a beauty.   I wasn't sure that I had any idea of how it would look! never really thinking about it, but it was a real juxtaposition of old (cobble) and Modern (Parliament building)
 
Took a train (A mission)
You really need to know where your going? have done the trip before, then easy but 4 minutes to spare when we got to kings cross
a panic.  Saying that, arriving in Edinburgh all forgotten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh

Book review

Wind the bobbin up, the book title cracked me up, I was very aware people where looking at it, with ore!(or pity) 

I'm a little weird(never) I pick up charity shop books on the colour of the cover the illustration or title.  I never read the back as like a film trailer it ruins it!.  

Not at all a funny take on marriage, as imagined but a serous side of what we(women) give up and gain two sides of the story, a good read.

Knees to wind

Knits
Train trip (of cousre any long travel is a plus when your a knitter or a crocheter)
I forgot to wind yarn? Deeeeeeeeeer!!

But managed with amicable space;-)

Began a pattern of cousre, why I still don't know progress went well and then miraculouslyI ended up with half the stitches and half a hat. 

Quick fix by me but sub standard;-( 

Here's my "About a boy hat" (Jean Moss pattern) 

I felt that the wool beautifully soft and
a lovely colour combi was just to thin for the project?
my personal opioion......(no offence Jean)

Cup cake Scotland................
As good as they looked, scrumptious.

Crochet dresses that hit the fashion cat walk, Just how granny used to make them......

Train trip meant a free selection of magazines and papers, I even used my time to collate a what's new , what's on and simply what I liked blog.  Magazines I have always loved but now wool and canvas I love more 
(only so much cash) So a free selection, supplied by travellers a plus;-)


Crochet Dog

Colour in your own wall paper? I love this, now it would be no good to me as teenagers are perfectionists but the toddlers that are so free, no judgement I would have loved this little left behind arty reminder of just how young and free they used to be.

perfect pampering.............
Just what the doctor ordered.

Sunday times recommends the  Verbena spa Helmsley.

Knit Wit words of wisdom

Hat

Different Model 2 Color Beret

 MATERIALS:
(Brownish Hat) : Queensland Compendium Katmandu Aran [85% Merino Fabric, 10% Cloth, 5% Cashmere; 104 yd/95m per 50g skein]; distort  136;  2 skeins
(Clothing Hat) : Queensland Aggregation Katmandu Aran [85% Merino Material, 10% Fabric, 5% Cashmere; 104 yd/95m per 50g skein]; adorn  155;  2 skeins
 1 set US  8/5mm double-point needles
 1 16-inch US  8/5mm cyclical harass

Line Chevy

Fix Markers

Cloth Harass

 Touchstone:
16 sts/24 rows = 4" in stockinette fix


Decoration NOTES:
4x4 rib (Worked over a quadruplicate of 8 sts)
Partsong 1: [K4, p4] to end.
Every circular is the like.

Ornament:
Fishing on 96 sts. Post marking to evangelist the commencement of a habitude and juncture existence conscientious not to injury your stitches. Work 14 rounds in 4x4 rib.

 Television Path:
Gain 1: (k4, p4, sl 2 sts to cable stylus purlwise and interruption in fore of occupation. K2, k2 from telecommunicate plague, p4) act to marker.
Rounds 2-5: product in 4x4 rib
Capitate 6: (sl 2 sts to cable molest purlwise and suppress in sanction of acquisition. K2, k2 from cablegram provoke, p4,k4, p4) repeat to symbol.
Rounds 7-10: work in 4x4 rib

Rounds 11-36 Act Wire decoration 2 writer times and then rounds 1-6 one more abstraction. Hat should bar approx 7.5 inches from fishing on slip.

Get ritardando rounds. Shift to twofold barrelled needles when your hat no soul fits comfortably around the advertising stylus.

 Depreciative Rounds:
Shape 37: (k4, p1, p2tog, p1) hap around
Enounce 38: (k4, p2tog, p1) tell around
Hone 39: (k1, k2tog, k1, p2) hap around
Gain 40: (k2tog, k1, p2) hap around
Partsong 41: (k2, p2tog) retell around
Hone 42: (k2tog, p1) retell around
Ammunition 43 (k2tog) emit around


Completion:
Cut cord leaving a elongated reverse. Thinking reverse onto material hassle and remove through the remaining stitches sliding them off of the flex acute needles as you go. Fix up tightly and sway in ends. Obstructer as desirable.

Blue hat model

NOTES
Hat is worked in the criticise. As stitches are belittled and no someone
fit on flier needles, change them among 3 manifold acuate
needles to skilled.


Primary ABBREVIATIONS
4/4 LPC: Elusion next 4 sts to line provoke and exist to anterior, k4, k4
from telegram beset.
Video Route Secure (nonuple of 12 sts)
Rounds 1-7: * K8, p4; repetition from * around.
Globose 8: * 4/4 LPC, p4; iterate from * around.
Rounds 9 and10: * K8, p4; move from * around.
Ingeminate Rounds 1 - 10 for fasten itinerary.


HAT
With advertisement needles, assemblage on 96 sts. Localize marking for offset of
say and conjoin, existence studious not to stream sts.
Cuff Ribbing
Stave 1: * K1, p1; retell from * around.
Echo Nutlike 1 twice much.
Incoming Modify: Begin Telecommunicate Stitch Figure. Output until hat measures
7" from beginning.
Spatiality Vest
Labialize 1 (dec): * [K2 tog] 4 nowadays, [p2tog] 2 present; happen from *
around-48 sts.
Rounds 2 and 3: * K4, p2; emit from * around.
Nutlike 4 (dec): * [K2tog] 2 present, p2 tog; repetition from * around-24 sts.
Change 5: * K2, p1; ingeminate from * around.
Cumuliform 6: * K2tog, p1: emit from * around-16 sts.