WOYWW 900 congratulations everyone!

I started taking part in WOYWW in the early 400s, but took a break for studies so my 00 post is #600. 

Thank you everyone for this wonderfully supportive network. Here’s my 600 post.Happy WOYWW 

Hugs to everyone, especially to Helen and hoping you have your op and feel better soon. 

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 600 Yay! 

Hi, and big congratulations to Julia and to us all for sustaining our blog circle at the The Stamping Ground to 600 weeks! 

My vineyard scarf is now finished. 

I added a grape-bobble border to the ends but have kept the side borders plain, as bobbles could catch in earrings. 

 Since then I’ve been struggling with chiral logic. I fancied these figure of eight gloves, but the pattern is only written for right handed crochet, and my spirals, in the first example, were going wrong. I still don’t have it right, but it’s an interesting little problem. 

The pattern is here: 

http://knitting-and-so-on.blogspot.com/2015/11/octavo.html

Thanks to all for your good wishes last week; B’s 2nd cataract op seems to have gone ok. He says he’s wasting a lot of time looking for glasses he doesn’t need, like when he wakes and reaches for them out of habit. He’ll still need reading glasses, which also get lost. In a few weeks he can get a definitive prescription. 

Thea is still very cuddly; hibernating is also a key occupation 😻

And finally...

Looking forward to seeing you all at the crop on Saturday 

Hugs

Lynne 

WOYWW 899 Othello, stretchier yarn and watercolour

Hi all, WOYWW 899, who’d have thought it? I’m so glad we’re still going, thanks to Julia, Jan and now Sarah, who groups us all via Sarah’s Craftshed. 

My desk right now is rather flowery:

I’m trying to paint an outsize daffodil for our exhibition, and am letting it dry before adding a bit more colour to the petals.

Several of our art class had lunch today to meet up and to discuss our exhibition which will be from mid-September in Saltwood, Folkestone. 

We also visited the Hythe Art Society’s Summer Show, where one of our group. Frances, has paintings. She did a beautiful landscape with the hills crinkled with clingfilm, and a lovely hare. 

I even won an embroidery book in the tombola!

My elbow is improving and I’ve done a bit of knitting. I don’t want stripes as such, because the upper chest on the right and the lower on the left has horizontal ribs. I was trying to add the occasional fine line of contrasting colour. 

Unfortunately, carrying the yarn along the back meant it had no stretch. 

I tried doing it in alternate stitches which works better. 

On the back it looks like that Latvian braid I did for our hats Jan!

We had no internet for a few days but now it’s back I’ve ordered a couple more colours of the yarn to add in. 

On Saturday evening we went to see Othello at St Augustine’s abbey in Canterbury. We have some new Ozzigear camping chairs, but were struggling to put them together, providing much entertainment to those around us. The cast were going round selling programmes so Othello’s lieutenant Cassio, helped us put our chairs up! 

The play was being performed by the Lord Chamberlain’s men, who do Shakespeare as it was performed at the time, ie with men acting women’s parts. I was dubious about this, as a feminist, and also after seeing David Mitchell’s comedy Upstart Crow, but they were excellent. Here’s Desdemona on the right. 

And finally…

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx