Saturday, June 23, 2007

Cool Aunt Phoebe

This week I've been looking at baby patterns for some charity knitting, and wishing someone close to me would have a baby, just so I could knit them something lovely. Wishful thinking of course, seeing as my generation of friends and family either already have children or are unlikely now to have any.

And then last night, I was having dinner with S, and she told me she was pregnant. Absolutely extraordinary timing, and so completely unexpected.


Congratulations S and A! I'm going to be an aunty!* Baby is due in the new year, so it's early days, and I'm the only one in the family who knows for now, but I CANNOT wait till this marvellous news is out, it will impact the family in ways I cannot even attempt to describe here.

And of course, the knitting opportunities! Mum-to-be has told me to knit away and I've already been scouring the web for the best baby pattern books!

* You know that scene in Friends, where pregnant Phoebe is having the mood swings, and the girls tell her that she gets to be cool Aunt Phoebe! That will be me, cool Aunty Elly.

Monday, June 18, 2007

Ravelry

Just as I had given up waiting, tonight I received my invitation to Ravelry. Hoorah! I headed straight over to have a look, but you can't stop at just one look! It's such fun, but guess who can't come out to play till the weekend? Work to do, friends to see, shawl to finish. Pah.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

My head hurts

A lot.

But first, thank you SO MUCH for your lovely comments on the PotW. Each one made me ridiculously happy, and it's always nice to hear from friends, old and new.

I've had loads of knitting time since the last post, and quite frankly, the stole should have been finished a long time ago, but there's a project at work that is hanging over me like a heavy, dark cloud and knitting, reading, any activity that doesn't bring me closer to the end of the project just fills me with dreadful guilt. Absurd, I know. [What's even more absurd, is that I've procrastinated so much on this project, that there's not much progress there either, so lose/lose all round really.]

Anyway, I've turned three corners and am about halfway down the last side. No pictures, since it doesn't look much different from the last time, but there have been many PotWs finished in blogland in recent weeks, and since a number of knitelly's visitors come via a PotW search, I'd like to point you to these beautiful examples at Tangled Creations, PoMo Golightly, Omly Crafts, Posh Yarn [scroll down to June 7th] and DropOne, who's already started another one!

Clearly, at some point, I managed to suppress the guilt long enough to give the old blog a bit of a clean and a slap of paint. I've wanting to update it since Tarilyn added her daisies and made it look so easy. There's still some html tinkering to do, but I think it looks less oppressive now.

As if not being able to knit with a clear conscience isn't bad enough, I've also missed a few I Knit London meets. I went a couple of weeks ago to the meet at the Crown and Two Chairman, where not a lot of knitting went on, but it was nice to chat and catch up on the news. And last night I made it to Men Who Knit night at the shop. Some of us then went to the pub, where I drank an obscene amount of wine. With only nuts for dinner (but they were goooood nuts). Boys, I'm so sorry if I was loud and awful last night, but I did really have a good time. Which brings me to my hurty head, and if it ever stops raining, I might take the Yarn Harlot and my sorry backside out for a gentle walk.