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I have decided I am in awe of regular bloggers, I am hopeless however blame it a bit on dial-up. Everything seems geared to broadband with pages taking longer and longer to load. So by the time I have checked my various emails, scanned newspapers, peeked at auction sites, blog sites and craft sites, beaten up monsters and solved puzzles on KOL-kingdomofloathing.com, (a very dial-up friendly site), and made cups of coffee while updates download, well my eyes are fuzzy and I just sign out. Next year will seriously consider getting broadband however it is not the fastest thing anyway out here in the ‘wilderness’.

Finished the shawl for Fuschia, must remember the s, have received a stern reminder about that, spellchecker in Word doesn’t like it tho’, nor blog for that matter. Anyway Fuschia says I am now an online resource and although I have to chuckle I must admit I have found so much information on the web from the generosity of others that if I can do my little bit that is a fine thing, rather hard to live up to!

Four of us went to Stitches and Craft in Sydney last week, very enjoyable day. Many inspirational ideas and bought home some goodies, not as many as I could have.

Some more details on Folk Shawls, it was published in 2000 by Interweave Press in Colorado, (I will be in a neighbouring state next month, ooooh, getting excited.)

ISBN 13: 978-1-883010-59-1

ISBN 10 1-883010-59-4

My next project from that book will be the Feather and Fan Shawl from Iceland because very taken with the pattern and I love the accompanying story from folklore that says that fairy women could travel between Earth and Fairyland on their shawls.

The shawl is knitted using unspun Icelandic yarn, would love to try that and have a ball of cheese roving that might practice on one day, but for now will use a lovely, local hand dyed alpaca yarn, photo when I get past the cast on stage.