I am really getting into this knitting thang this year!
I knitted myself 2 Thorpe earflap beanies (Ravelry Link) over the last couple of weeks.
I’m still learning a lot with knitting and try to learn something new with each pattern I choose – these were my first attempt at doing something ‘top down’.
These were a heap [...]

Well, I am back!
Late last year I fell in love with wool, yarn and generally all things that don’t mix the greatest with my lovely subtropical climate.
So how to keep my stash/collection from growing crazily out of control? I had my Ashford Knitter’s Loom, but really there is a limit to what I could make [...]

It was a gorgeous day on Sunday, so we decided to head to our local botanic gardens looking for inspiration for our garden.

The gardens feature many different gardens, from tropical to arid.

To rainforest…

We stopped for lunch under a tree, and I whipped out my socks that I had finished the night before.

These little guys turned [...]

My newly completed cardigan….

Two weeks of blissful knitting. 

An easy pattern to learn. And a gorgeous wool to knit with.

I think I will be knitting at least another one of these….

It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted!  Work has been really hectic,  and not being able to not run is starting to catch up with me. It’s been 5 months and I am itching to start up again, but my shin splints just don’t seem to want to recover.  One step  forward [...]

I’m not really sure what to say today, except that I feel incredibly sad.  The words “Worst Bush Fires in Australian History” keep swirling around my head, along with the death toll that keeps on rising (173 last count this morning). And I am also feeling grateful, all my relatives who live in Victoria are all safe and [...]

Not much cross stitch going on at the moment.  The living room has been turned upside down whilst we clean and re-arrange everything.  Which means my stitching chair is unreachable, but that’s ok as I have been knitting up a storm!
I decided that it was time I taught myself how to knit cables, and what better project [...]

I’m not usually one to make new year’s resolutions, but this year I am going to try- plus it gives me something to blog about too;)
Without further ado, here are Jessica’s goals/wishes for 2009:

Blog more- looking better already:P
Remove some of the chinese elms from the backyard and get a vegetable garden built and growing
Finish at [...]

I thoroughly enjoyed crafting in 2008, and I am very glad to have diversified my interests to include knitting and quilting.  This year, I want to relax and work on projects as I feel like it. 
I would like to finish two Mirabilia cross stitches (eek!).  I’m on my way to getting Mirabella done, I was [...]

Well, we have skipped through Spring, and are in the throes of Summer temperatures here! It’s only the beginning of October and I am already *over* the hot weather…eek! (only 5 more months…only 5 more months…)
I have to say (and it is a pathetic excuse) that the weather, work and Ripley’s [...]