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  1. Stitches & Craft Show

    March 13, 2009 by sunrisesister

    Today I trekked early into the city to help out at the Stitch n Bitch stall at the Stitches and Craft show. This year, it was held at the Melbourne Showgrounds, and I have to say, the venue was fab. Apart from the stinking heat, but we wont go there.

    We chatted to heaps and heaps of people interested in the many groups around Melb, learnt some tips from the machine knitters guild chick next door, and had a wonderful browse thru the market area. Lots of stalls, but sadly not so much for knitters. Lots of quilting fabric, expensive sewing gear, and a craptonne of beading shit. Pear Tree yarns were there, but amazingly, nothing grabbed me! The yarn barn were selling 8ply, but I was ideally after 10ply for winter knitting. I did stop by the Wondoflex stall though, to talk to Marilyn, and she very happily sold me 4 skeins of the long-awaited patonyle colours!! I am so excited about this – perfect manly colours for winter socks.

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    I also stumbled accross a group of felters. Some really amazing things on offer there, and I am kicking myself now for not picking some more stuff up when I had the chance. But I did collect cards for online buying..

    There was some amazing fibre for sale, and when I clapped eyes on these babies, I couldnt resist..

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    Small, but will be enough for small projects like babies booties and toys. The colours are amazing.

    Some of the ‘art’ around the main shed was good fun, and I managed to take some pics..

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    And this stall, which can only be described as an EXPLOSION of Shabby shit. I mean, Chic.

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    It was a good day, and it was a wonderful way to meet lots of new people, all passionate about their own craft. But I am glad to be home.. I am starving and sweaty!

    Note: weblinking is broken. Need to fix.

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  2. FO: Boteh Scarf

    February 26, 2009 by sunrisesister

    When I downloaded this pattern, I almost had a coronary at the sight of the chart. It looked more like a gang of spiders had been dipping their feet in ink and dancing accross the page. But I remembered that crochet patterns always look complex,but arent, so I gave it a go.

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    This scarf took me 4 freaking hours. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! Crochet rocks, and I dont care if I do it backwards.

    It’s meant to look like falling leaves (It’s a Persian pattern) but I kinda think it looks like flames of a fire. Orange isnt my usual colour, but I am giving it a go.

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  3. Dentist Bitches

    February 20, 2009 by sunrisesister

    Ergh. Today was the last of my fillings (yay!) and even better, I have reached my co-payment cap, so everything is free from here on in. But, it’s like the dentist knew this was a freebie, and therefore treated me like crap. First of all, she treated my preference for having anaesthesia as an inconvenience. Sorry, I dont like DRILLING in my face! Glad I did, even when I was numbed up to the gills, it still fucking hurt.

    So she sticks the needle in here, here and here. AND THEN THRU THE BOTTOM OF MY MOUTH. I have bruising, blood marks where it went in, and I feel like shit. 3 hours later, I am still numb. She drilled out the teeth, and filled them as normal, but jesus I am sore for it now. She was really rough, and even when I made it obvious that the pain was unbearable, she wouldnt stop. I am no wuss when it comes to pain, but jeebus. This was the third different dentist I have seen at that clinic.

    Anyway, hopefully that will be it now, and I just have to wait for the Dental Hospital to call me in for the op. 

    I did manage a quick trip to Spotlight this morning, to see what was left of the previous season (answer: an ocean of dead muppet. I picked up 2 skeins and did a public “down at fraggle rock’ dance move in the aisle. I asked a fellow passing patron what she thought had to die for them to harvest this hideous substance, and she laughed. I did, tho, get some nice bargains:

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    6 Skeins of Lion Cotton. This had disappeared from the shelves for a long time, and I was delighted to see the one colour I had missed out there. I grabbed the last of it! $5.99 a ball, reduced from $12 a ball. Great for crochet, and market bags. 

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    3 Skeins of Natural Cotton 8ply. This looks nice enough – I love knitting with cotton.

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    4 skeins of my fave bamboo, in blue. 

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    1 skein of baby bella layette in a nice coffee shade. People rave about this.. I got a skein to see what the fuss is all about.

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    and 2 more beautiful coconut buttons. These are destined for the swing cardi I am more than halfway thru with!

    I am hosting tomorrow’s Stitch n Bitch, so as soon as this numbess and woozy feeling has gone, I will give the house a vacuum and do some tidying. I have a nice cake planned, but we will see how that eventuates! The kids are going to their dad’s sperm donor’s tomorrow, and overnight, so we are going to try and go out for a meal at least.

    Yesterday was my first probate class, which was surprisingly interesting! I am glad, because I was leaning towards illegal substances to keep me awake for that particular subject.. KIDDING! Before that, was 3.5 hours of Legal Research Method, or, as I like to call it, Advanced Facebooking. Boring as hell, and we had to sit thru another 1980′s video on ‘Teamwork’ – hilarious and scary at the same time. We have a craptonne of work to do for that subject, altho it’s mostly out of class. Ours is on Domestic Violence and provocation as a defence to murder. This defence was recently abolished, but there are lobby groups on each side who feel very passionately about it. Our job is to prepare a paper on it, as well as a powerpoint presentation ‘for the minister.’

    I did come home to a gorgeous piece of fluffymail though – my EGMTK Fibre club parcel #2, which has a stunning hank of hand dyed BFL (Blue Faced Leicester) wool, and my VERY own Ashford WPI tool! OMG!! Happies. I will post a pic of that in a few days, when the others have received theirs.

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  4. Big Button

    January 20, 2009 by sunrisesister

    There is a hat called the Robin’s Egg Blue Hat, that I have been wanting to make for ages. I dont quite know what yarn to make it with yet, but this is the button I picked out yesterday..

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    It got to 40 degrees (104.5F) today, so I did little more than lay on the bed, under the fan, and crochet and watch tv.

    But I did get a delivery… My first ever fibre club, from Ewe Give Me The Knits! I signed up back in December, and this is the first of 3 shipments..

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    Tsk tsk! I am not going to upload pics of the fibre colourway just yet, so the others waiting to get theirs dont have the suprise spoiled for them..

    The kids spent some of their money yesterday at Spotlight, and have being doing some more beading. I made up a few stitchmarkers..

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    The scarf is finished, but just needs blocking… cute huh?

    Ok, the so-called ‘cool change’ is meant to be sweeping thru.. so off I go again!

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  5. Hot, Again

    January 20, 2009 by sunrisesister

    So, it’s that time again. Time for it to be 30 degrees at 9am, 35 degrees shortly after, and totally impossible to do anything. This low humidity and dry, hot, northern winds just zap all the energy I have, and at the same time, make it impossible to sleep. We are all sitting in front of the air cooler, trying not to kill one another!

    I also managed to screw up the first 2 rows of a hat last night (hello! I mean how hard is k2 p2?) so decided to sit down with my new Happy Hooker book and do some new crochet stitches.

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    They are very fast to make, and I did 6 in less than an hour.. Lots of fun. When they are all done, they will be a Garden Scarf – Maya has already claimed it as her own, but I wonder if there is an adult out there someone who is game to wear it?

    Back to the couch I go, to sip cold water and try and steer clear of the dizziness.

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