birthday spongebob
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today is my brother’s birthday and since it’s january 6th, it’s also the last knees-up before we all get properly stuck into the new year. my brother works and lives in athlone, and he is driving home to sligo this evening so we can all celebrate his birthday together. so, i baked a birthday cake! i’m no michelin-star chef, but i can still bake a mean sponge.

Lucky from SNBN
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mums have fantastic finding abilities. it must be a pyschic change that occurs when you have children that allows you to magically find things that have been lost. MY mum found me a connection cable for my camera within five minutes of me asking her if she’d seen one around. magic!

so here is my progress on ‘lucky’ from SNBN. i ordered rowan’s 4-ply cotton from getknitted.com, an english company. they sent me a free pen and a jelly santy as well for christmas 🙂

no pictures, just plans
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i’m afraid i can’t update until i find the connection lead for my camera… and until i remember my own username and password 🙂 this is the problem when your computer in dublin remembers everything for you!

i have been working on a gryffindor scarf (muchos boring but good for tv watching). i got some lovely rowan 4-ply cotton for christmas in ‘bloom’, a sort of dark pink/rusty colour. i’m currently knitting ‘lucky’ out of it. i had 12″ of the back knitted when i realised i should have increased after the waist shaping about 8″ back. so i just had to rip it all out and start again. *cry*

i am heading to galway to see alberto and celebrate the new year all at the same time on saturday. there has been money saved and there will be wool shopping. i have a short list of what i want and i’m trying to cut it down to what i need immediately. much as i love my armwarmers, i need a proper pair of gloves and something to keep my ears warm while running, so i think i will invest in some black superwash aran that tivoli have. it’s yum yum.

here be the treasyarrrr map of plans

Scarf Ahoy! Yarrr
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Horray! the axa competition is over, and i got back down to some serious knitting today 🙂 i finally finished the narrow clapotis i’m knitting as a christmas present for aoife, who did such an amazing job designing some concert clothes for me last year. i only did one set of increases at the beginning,…