Knit Your Square To Give Your Share 2009!

L_C_Wilson

Hi all

Mam is having a bit of a lay in so I've got a bit of time to myself and thought I'd touch base.

Hope everyone is well and keeping out of this miserable weather. Can't believe the difference from yesterday - My two sisters and I went to pick blackberries and it was lovely and sunny, with just a nice breeze. Between the three of us we picked over seven and a half pounds is less than an hour :T Had a lovely crumble for desert last night, and froze the rest. Edith took a few up home (she has most of her meals at my house anyway) but Kathleen wouldn't take any - as usual said she's no good at baking and would rather take the completed crumble home.... For goodness sake how hard is it to make a crumble? So will have to have one ready when she comes to take me shopping on Friday :rolleyes:

Have had really bad shoulders for a few days so have been laying off the knitting a little till they ease off a bit. Doing a little here and there but not as much as I'd like. Really boring though, especially now the cricket has finished

Just sitting here watching the antics of the birds in the flowering cherry just outside my window. I have two seed feeders and a few fat balls in there, and there was so many birds coming that I started throwing half a bag of seed under the tree each day... only trouble is the stuff started sprouting all over, then when it got really wet it started to ferment... The smell :eek:. In the end had to get my brother to clear it all up (didn't think 'I'd' no it now did you?) . He's built a huge wooden tray there now and it's easy enough to keep clearing the old stuff out. There must be about 50 birds there at the moment - mostly sparrows, dunnocks, and starlings, but we get green finches, gold finches, tits, and a pair of collared doves too. Strangely enough the robins and blackbirds seem to prefer the back garden where I don't even put food out .

Well I've waffled enough for now, so off to do the chores.

Take care everyone.

Lorna

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

the banket looks fabulous, well done everyone and huge thanks to chalky for taking on the sewing up and arranging the squares so beautifully:T.
i put some more squares in the post yesterday chalky hopefully they will be with you soon.

shoulder still hurts like hell so didnt get much sleep last night, odc said ive probally trapped something he mentioned a little tunnel through a bone and the nerve beig swollen that goes through it, the pain killers hes given me are great- till they wear off.

read abit f 'the friday night knitting club' again last night as i couldnt knit- its abrilliant story i am really getting into the characters, i'd really recomend it if anyone fancies a read about a group of knitters and their lives (its like us really);)

hope everyone has a good day.

Re the tooth fairy £1 is the going rate, i made a little cross stitch bag when my eldest was little thats always been our 'tooth fairy bag'

shezmit

Thanks everyone, The tooth fairy was generous in our house last night and left Rhiannon £2,

Has anyone got any patterns for a tooth fairy bag i don't mind if they are knitting one or cross stitch ones,

Thankyou

mrs-moneypenny

i would think a phone cosy pattern would be ideal there are loads of free patterns about for them,

the one i made was just a free cover kit from a cross stitch mag it was meant to be a lavender bag but got adopted as a tooth bag by my eldest and the other just called it the tooth bag after that. id just finished making it when she got her first wobbly tooth so she asked if the fairy would be able to get the tooth out if she put it under her pillow in that. ive often found little notes in it for the fairy along with the tooth.;)

Kinsey

How about the lovely patterns for ring cushions for wedding rings, adapted and a small pocket on the top? Or a peg doll fairy with a pocket on her dress? oohhh I want to make one now!

mrs-moneypenny

kinsey they are lovely ideas:T

Pippa.S

Finally got time to sit and read through, I love hearing about all your goings on with Mums, sisters, children and friends and I hope you enjoy my shenanigans

Chalky - welcome back, the blanket is looking great, well done on all the sewing up :T

mrs-moneypenny - hope your shoulder gets better soon

Kinsey - you have some lovely ideas :T

Shelley - these tooth fairies must be very rich nowadays;) I got 6d when mine wobbled out, but then its was a verrrry long time ago :rotfl:

Lorna - what a nice post, I had all sorts of lovely images going through my head as I read it, :A

delain - you made me :rotfl:at your "lump"

It seems ages since we took the girls home but it was only Sunday, the house is too quiet and far too tidy :rotfl:
I started getting everything back where it should be this morning, havent had time since we got back Monday, its almost straight now though.
I've sorted the toy box out, they'd put all the toys in but the overflow was like a mountain stuck on top, it just needed placing in right :rolleyes:
It's ready to go back upstairs now, the sheets and quilt covers are all washed and I have some out under the back cover as its raining :rolleyes2 they probably wont dry but will smell nice and fesh when I fetch them in, and the rest will go out for a blow later.

I am aiming to get a good knit in this PM, ahhh bliss

TTFN see you all later
Anne
x

linedancerann

Afternoon all. What a miserable, miserable day. I don't think its stopped raining here since about 6 this morning. I just want to be at home, in front of the fire with a hot chocolate and my knitting - but unfortunately, here I am stuck at work....
Ah well, soon be half three and then I can go!!

Will pop back later.

Ann xx

Kinsey

Lorna my bird tree is a white lilac, stuff hangs from it like christmas tree but I love watching them and we get a wonderful variety of birds. Unfortunately from January this year we get a couple of grey squirrels and although their antics are amusing they are hooligans.

Ann it's rained here all day as well, and very windy, quite depressing. Where does all this wind come from? Don't say the Russian Steppes.

OnlyGirl

Hello everyone,

It's taken me nearly all evening to catch up on all your news,

Kathy- Congratulations! dgd finally arrived and she sounds georgeous, I'm so glad mum and baby are doing well and back at home. Enjoy your time together.:j

Chalky- You must be all weddinged out, Blanket looks brilliant, thank you so much for all the sewing up.:T

LC- I hope your mum is on the mend now and feeling better.

Mrs MP- I hope your shoulder is better soon.

Hugs to all of you, I can't tell you how much i have missed all the chatter on here, I have only just got back online last night, our old pc blew up 3 days before our holiday(last week). We got a new pc which has windows vista the old one was windows xp, we've had to wait for a new router and cables to be sent out by our service provider it took more than 3 attempts to get them to realise we were now on vista which they kept insisting wouldn't make any difference.:mad: anyway we had a lovely holiday in Cleethorpes it was sunny all week but I am so glad to be home and looking forward to quietish week before school starts up again.:D

Speek to you all tomorrow.x