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June 30, 2008
Woolfest
Lou and I had a great time in Woolfest. Again we sold so many magazines, we beat our subscription target for the weekend (which we had set based on Wonderwool and other shows) by 2pm on the first day. We met many of our subscribers as they came to pick up the new copy which was lovely and made so many new friends. At breakfast on Saturday morning it was really funny to see so many of the other people in the hotel with a copy of YF on the table with them!
Lou has photos of the weekend and will be posting on the YF blog later on today, I'm going to show you just one pic of the stash I bought for myself, I was very restrained I think. I narrowly avoided bringing 4 big bin bags full of raw fleece home with me, maybe next year...
I did treat myself to these though, some shetland roving (pink and green at the back already fluffed up and ready to spin) and a batt from Natalie at the yarn yard, some fibre from Krafty Koala, a lovely needle case from Nics knits and some white texel roving from Wingham. I had far more fun shopping for Twinkletoes though, I filled lots of bags of goodies for her from her list, I hope she likes them!
We stayed over Saturday night and drove home all day Sunday. It took over 6 hours and by the time we got back to mine there was jsut time for a quick cup of tea before I headed over to the school summer fete and Lou got back in the car for another 4 hours drive to her house. Both of us feel as though we never want to get in the car again at the moment!
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June 25, 2008
KAL Media Press Release
KAL Media Press Release, Wednesday 25th June
KAL Media, publishers of Yarn Forward Magazine, today announce that from October the popular UK knitting magazine will be published 10 times a year and will be available to buy through leading newsagents and supermarkets.
Louise Butt, Managing Editor of Yarn Forward Magazine and partner in KAL Media said “the magazine has been really successful this year and we have been thrilled with the response we have received from our existing subscriber base and new customers alike. An increase in frequency of publication and making Yarn Forward more widely available to the general public is the best way to make sure the magazine reaches its full potential.”
Yarn Forward is a 100-page magazine containing brand new and exclusive knitting and crochet patterns, price bracketed yarn alternatives for every pattern, realistic sizes from 30-50 inch bust and only 10 pages of advertising per issue. Each issue also contains in depth articles on topics that will be of interest to our readers - for example features on both small independant suppliers and larger yarn companies together with reviews of brand new products and books, interviews and technical features.
For more information, email feedback@yarnforwardmagazine.co.uk
For advertising, email shirley@yarnforwardmagazine.co.uk
How about that then?? You may already have seen this press release if you are a Yarn Forward subscriber, we thought it was important to let those people who have supported us through the first 6 issues know the news first.
So what does this mean for me personally? A huge amount. I can't begin to explain to you how it feels for the magazine to be a viable business, with cash flow forecasts and a business plan that has impressed everyone we have shown it to. For too long I struggled with it and was told a number of times that it was not financially viable and that it was worth nothing and would never make any money. The idea of it being on the shelves in WH Smiths, Tescos and other newsagents and supermarkets in the autumn is at once scary and totally thrilling. It is a major validation of all the hard work and time and effort that I have put into the magazine. I couldn't have done it without Lou, she has been the catalyst behind this change and we are both sooooo excited to take the magazine to the next level.
We are busy recruiting for more and more support staff to work on the magazine with Lou and I as we both know we cant do it on our own any more. I'm also taking more of a backseat with HipKnits, I think I'll be more of a creative manager while mum and dad are the general managers. They will deal with pretty much all of the dyeing, packaging, emails and other day to day running of the business while I will continue to be involved with choosing yarns, patterns, designs, colours, kits, promotions, and photographing the yarn. Its going to work out really well I think.
Now, if you'll excuse me I have a country to travel around distributing press releases, media packs and sample magazines to lots of lovely people before we make it to Woolfest to meet lots of lovely subscribers.
Catch you next week. xx
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June 24, 2008
Thought provoking
Wayne and I watched some interesting TV last night, from 8pm we watched Windrush on BBC4. This is the story of HMS windrush that sailed from the caribean to the UK after the 2nd world war bringing many black immigrants. Just watching what they went through when they arrived here was amazing, the mixed race couples who were spat at in the street, the signs on boarding houses saying rooms for rent, no blacks, no dogs. Frightening.
They showed some of the TV adverts from around that time. With well dressed upper class white people explaining that they were not racist, one of them said something like "its not that we don't like black people because of the colour of their skin, its because they smell bad that we don't like them" WTF???
Then we watched a panorama programme on Primark and how their cheap clothes are made in India, with children as young as 10 hand stitching sequins onto clothes for something like 14 pence a day. The average daily wage is £1 so 14p a day is ridiculously low.
It really makes you think about how lucky we are in our particular time and country. I can't imagine living in any conditions other than the ones we live in now, its sad to think that there are parts of the world where children can't be children because they are too busy working hard for pennies a day to give to their families..
Do you believe in miracles? Or Karma? Or fate? I do. I believe that everything that you do comes back to you, whether it be good or bad. I also believe that we can never understand the consequences our actions can have. I've done a few things that I thought were being helpful which turned out to cause more problems than they were worth and recently a very pants situation turned out to have a huge silver lining to it that I would never have expected. You just can't predict what the universe is going to do.
Recently I've been thinking a lot about miracles, I've seen a fair few of them around here recently with lots of babies being born, a friend being undiagosed with cancer (what a mistake to make!) as well as a horrific accident on the motorway that no-one should have walked away from, but they did. It makes you feel really good about life when things like this happen doesn't it?
A smaller example of fate happened over the weekend when Wayne and I were sitting around talking about buying some new furniture. I had seen some that I liked in Habitat and wanted to show it to him but we'd both turned off our laptops and I couldnt be bothered to get it out of the cupboard to turn it on and google it. We also couldnt be bothered to get dressed and drive to our nearest habitat and just as I was saying to him "damn, we should have picked up a catalogue last time we were there" the post dropped through the door containing by some bizarre twist of fate a habitat catalogue. See? Karma. I love it when things like that happen, don't you? Makes you realise that you are not alone in the world and that someone somewhere is looking after you.
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June 23, 2008
Feb Sweater
I really really enjoyed knitting this little sweater. I decided to make a sleeveless, cropped version as that seems to be the style I'm wearing most often these days.
The pattern was from here and I made the size L to fit my UK size 16 self. It used 238g of aran weight yarn which means that I have plenty left to use for something else one day.
I don't know why the self timer photos I took came out so bizarre, I am such a novice when it comes to my camera. Lets pretend they were supposed to be all whited out and artistic shall we?
I love this photo because you can see the gorgeous photos of Brooke and Cameron in the background and man it makes my hair look red!
I did manage to take a couple of pics without the scary white out effect but I look so cross (and fat!) in them that I'm not going to show you!
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June 22, 2008
Mini Update
I finished my version of the Feb sweater today and as Lou and I are now not away until Thursday I'll be able to show you all pics tomorrow. Bet you can't wait can you?
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New Hair
What do you think? My super star husband dyed it for me last week Saturday morning. We did it all over in a dark brown ish colour and then he put 2 lots of highlights in, first the coppery / blondey ones at the back and then the red ones at the front. I like it, nice and bright and summery. Really reflects how I'm feeling right now :)
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June 20, 2008
That Friday feeling
I was the first one up this morning, that doesn't happen often. I have a big week ahead of me next week and the first specific stress dream happened at about 4.30am and that was it, no sleep for me after that. I've been having non specific stress dreams for a while now, you know the ones where you are dropping the kids off at school and suddenly realise that you forgot to get dressed that morning and are standing there naked in front of the whole school. Those kind of stress dreams.
This morning's one was a whole lot more specific than that which is why I've been here on the sofa for the last couple of hours waiting for the rest of the house to wake up. So far, nothing. Its kind of peaceful.
I decided to make the feb sweater into a short sleeved, cropped cardigan when I realised that my 3 most worn cardigans at the moment are that style. I was also getting a bit bored with the lace pattern and I have zero patience so just worked the garter stitch edge and cast off. Just the short sleeves to go now. If I get them done over the weekend I might be able to show you a snap of the finished cardigan before I go away on Monday. Maybe not though depending on everything else.
So next week is going to be a quiet week. There will be a shop update on Monday and mum and dad will be posting everything out and looking after stuff for me. I'll be around to check emails every now and again from Mon - Wed but then Thurs - Sun I'll be properly at Woolfest so that will slow me up a little.
I'm rambling a bit this morning. So much in my head that I'm trying to make sense of that I don't know where to start. I think I'll just sit here and carry on looking out the window and reflecting on life until someone from upstairs decides to come and join me!
I hope to update here on Monday and also on the YF blog, for those of you coming to Woolfest please come and say hello - one of the best things about the shows is getting to put faces to names.
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June 19, 2008
Thanks!
Thanks for all the comments, emails, birthday cards that came through yesterday - y'all are lovely. I had a great day, I went shopping in the morning and spent all my birthday money (and then some) on clothes and jewellry, KFC for lunch, then home for an afternoon nap. Wayne did the school runs for me and I chilled out and knitted more on the Feb sweater (have worked about 8 inches of lace on the body so far, have left 200g of yarn to one side for the sleeves and plan to work the body as long as I can with the rest of the yarn) and finished a book I was reading.
When the kids got home we had a birthday tea, chocolate cake and then played party games until bedtime. The only party CD Brooke could find was a Christmas one but it didn't matter, playing musical statues to Jingle Bells in June is a little surreal but sill a lot of fun. Best birthday ever I think!
Today I'm catching up with everything. I'm out of the office all week next week so I have lots of adminy bits to get straight first. There will be some magically appearing blog posts here and on the YF blog thanks to the wonders of technology, at least one of them will be a really interesting one. For now though, its time to get everyone dressed and ready and out of the house for our days.
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June 18, 2008
Happy Birthday to me
32 today. It still doesn't feel that old though...
I'm taking the day off work (yay!) but there is a special HipKnits update on the site with a 32% discount if you spend £32 or more in any one transaction not including postage for the rest of the week. The offer applies to everything on the site while stocks last.
For some reason the new yarns I put on aren't appearing in the new products section, I don't know why. Sigh. I mainly updated some sale seacell and merino and some new ophelia colours. There are lots of other yummy yarns still on the site though so go and have a rummage, see what you can find.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to go shopping, have lunch and generally be a lady of leisure for the day.
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June 17, 2008
New project club
The first HipKnits project club is just about over (I havent heard that all the packages have arrived but I hope that most of them have by now and I'll be refunding today all those that tell me they haven't arrived) and to be honest, it didn't run as smoothly as I would have liked. In fact, that may be an understatement. We had way too many people on it for me to be able to manage properly and we suffered hugely with postal problems. I totally over comitted myself. At one point there were over 60 people on the club in total, about half of them had blogs and keeping up with the colour choices each time and the changes of email address, postal address etc proved to be too much for me. I shouldn't have let people keep joining after the club had started. I'm really sorry that it didn't run as well as I intended it to, I learned A LOT of lessons from it = that's for sure.
Since beginning of May mum and dad have been managing most of the day to day HipKnits for me (dad is doing the majority of the dyeing and mum is doing all of the posting out of parcels etc) and things have been much easier. I should have given them the last batch of club parcels to post out but after making up all the little goodie bags I decided to drive to the nearest big town to post them, however there were about 1/3 of them that I still havent heard have arrived. Sigh. They'll come back to me at some point but its so frustrating for right now.
I thought long and hard about whether to run another version of the project club and despite the problems with the first one I am confident that I've made enough changes to the way HipKnits is run to ensure that the next club runs more smoothly. I had so many requests from people who wanted to join the first one that I have decided to stick with my plan to run another one but in a different format which will hopefully make it easier for me and more enjoyable for everyone else.
The biggest changes are that it is going to be run over a shorter period of time, with much fewer people and that all colour choices need to be made at the beginning of the club. Also, all of the parcels are going to be assembled in the first few weeks of the club so that mum can just post them out at the right time.
I sold a number of places to the newsletter list at a little discount a few weeks ago, the remaining places are going to be STRICTLY limited this time, I let too many people through after all the places had sold last time. I need to be tough this time to preserve my sanity! This is up on the website now here but will only be available for a few days, if you're interested.
HipKnits project club – round 2.
I've also made the decision to let the HipKnits project club blog go, it will be deleted later on in the week. A certain little mouse might have had something to do with that decision. Stupid and unnecessary anony "mouse" comments really annoy me.
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June 16, 2008
Feb sweater
We had a lovely lazy weekend, spent mostly at mum and dad's house. I napped, knitted, had my hair dyed, went to the cinema with Wayne, watched a film, read some book, played football in the garden (although only for about 5 minutes - Wayne lasted about 4 hours out there, much more energetic than me) and knitted some more.
I'm on my 3rd 50g ball of random unlabelled grey aran yarn that I'm using for the Feb sweater and I've finished the garter stitch yoke. Whether this means I'll have enough yarn, I don't know. I'm knitting the L size which should need 1050 yards and from the little note I had written to myself in with the unlabelled yarn I think I have 1080 yards. Im a fairly loose gauge knitter though so I'm a little nervous about running out..
I couldn't find a circ needle when I started and I've JUST about managed to squash all of the stitches on straight needles but it was close at the end - it is really squashy on there.
I'm just about to knit my 4 rows of the gull lace pattern and then I'll be separating for the body so there should be a little more room on the needles. I'm considering knitting the sleeves before the body as I really like long long sleeves and I only have 12 x 50g balls of this yarn and I don't want to run short. I'd prefer to have a slightly shorter body if I need to. We'll see though..
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June 13, 2008
Thursday pudding, will probably still be there on Saturday though
I'm no Michaela when it comes to cooking but I do love to make puddings. I have this magic power to make puddings out of seemingly nothing. When Wayne and I are sitting on the sofa after the kids have gone to bed and one of fancies an unhealthy snack I can usually make something yummy from the contents of our cupboards and fridge with not too much effort.
Last night was an unusual night, Brooke cooked dinner and made pudding for her and Trinity. The had cookery lessons at school and she came home with Greek Salad and a spinach and feta cheese pie made with Filo pastry. It was yummy. Then she made an apple crumble which was equally yummy.
However, I'd already made a dessert before she asked for apple crumble, a lemon and chocolate pie. Two desserts in the house is never bad thing though. It was a total experiment and I just made it up as I went along. It tasted pretty good though, both Wayne and I cleared our plates so that can't be a bad sign.
I'm not very good at measuring or weighing but here is the basic recipe that I used..
Biscuit base
1 packet of digestives
melted butter
half a dozen bourbon biscuits that were beginning to go a bit soft in the bottom of the biscuit tin (waste not want not)
make a basic biscuit base by crushing biscuits in the food processor and adding enough melted butter to make a sticky base. Pop in the freezer to harden while you make the pie filling.
Pie filling
1 284ml pot of double cream (I use low fat, not that it makes much difference!)
1 normal sized tin of condensed milk
1 teaspoon lemon essence (would probably use a little less next time)
Half a bar of chocolate, probably around 100g. (would probably use a little more next time)
Whisk the double cream until it stands up by itself. Add the condensed milk and the lemon essence and mix well. Melt the chocolate and stir into the pie mixture.
Spoon on top of the biscuit base and chill for at least 2 hours before eating. Yum. I'm planning a strawberry version of this just as soon as we make it fruit picking.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend, we have lots planned as usual. I cast on for the adults EZ Feb sweater last night and got to the bottom of the garter stitch yoke before realising I'd messed up the stitch counts so I'm back to having just knitted 3 rows now. That'll teach me for trying to knit and talk to Fiona at the same time, I cant concentrate on 2 things at once!
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June 12, 2008
Mini cardigan
I wanted to make something for Trinity that was small, easy to make and hopefully used only just one ball of Rowan organic cotton. I was flicking through books for inspiration and couldn't find anything that was quite right until I remembered the February sweater from Elizabeth Zimmerman. I didn't have my copy of the pattern with me but I remembered how the garter stitch yoke went from a previous incarnation of making the pattern and didn't think I would get further than the yoke before I got back home.
However, I did get to the end of the yoke and being eager to continue I decided to use stocking stitch instead of the lace stitch pattern that looks so lovely in the original. I hoped to have enough to make a nice little cropped cardigan and I "just about" managed it. I actually ran out of yarn on the cast off row 2 stitches from the end so I was forced to thread it through the last 2 stitches.
I think it looks lovely, the first ever Feb sweater I saw in real life was this gorgeous one that Trinity received as a present when she was tiny. It is still one of my favourite cardigans and I only wish that I could squeeze her comfortably into it still.
I struggled to get any good photos of her wearing it, I know that a striped bob the builder T shirt wasn't the best outfit to style it with but honestly, have you tried to get her to wear anything else recently? She is BOB obsessed, I blame Cameron.
Here it is on the floor, unblocked and desperately in need of a little love and attention.
In the split second before she tried to rip it off.
Get this thing off me, can't you see it's obscuring the BOB.
I have no idea what this is but I think it belongs to you. Here. Take it. Take it!!
If you make me wear it again, I'll eat it. I will you know. Yum, it tastes kind of good.
I tell you what, how about I take it over here, drop it on the floor and throw my ball at it for a while. That sounds like fun, don't ya think?
Trouble. That's the only word for her....
Its rare that anything I want to do is either fashionable or popular but as I was making this last week I was thinking a lot about an adult sized version for me. Lo and behold Flintknits has already written the pattern out for one and there is a whole Ravelry group set up for the knit along. I am soooooooo tempted...
In other news I fell in love with this in the new knitty. The day will come when my to knit list is for me rather than for the magazine or hipknits. Oh yes, the day will come and when it does I'll be making this. For sure.
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June 11, 2008
Knitting clubs
I had a lovely evening with the Roding quilters last night, I went along to their monthly meeting to run a knitting flowers class and it was great. Everyone went away with 1 or 2 silk flowers and I think they all had a good time. It was nice to see Fiona again who organises the club and also Jacqueline which was a surprise. (especially as she bought me goodies, thanks Jacqueline!)
It was a fairly late night for me (stopping off at McDonalds on the way home for McFlurry and milkshake didn't help) and this morning I'm shattered. I have a horrible day ahead of me today which I'm not really looking forward to. Plenty of admin to start with and then a little bit of accounts followed by some legal advice on a debt matter. This is my least favourite part of my job but it needs to be done. I prescribe an evening in front of the TV (child of our time and the apprentice) to get over it all. I also need to persuade Trinity to model her new cropped cardigan so that I can show it to you all tomorrow.
EDITED TO ADD
Today wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be for a number of reasons. Just a quick couple of bits.
- Have you seen the new Knitty? Do you like the Yarn Forward advert on this page and the HipKnits one here?
- Have you checked out the YF blog recently? Lou did me a fab jpg of all our designs from the summer issue, doesn't it look great?
- Its 7pm and I'm going to try and get all 3 kiddos in the bath and to bed in the next half an hour so that then when wayne comes home later on with my ice cream and wine I can just sit in front of the TV and knit all night. Wish me luck. xx
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June 10, 2008
Shop updated
The shop update is good to go and for the first time in ages I sent out a newsletter update with a 10% off doscount voucher. You can go here to see all the new items, here are some of my favourite.
Wool / Silk in experiment.
More yak
Pretty lace cashmere
Pastelly cotton and silk
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June 09, 2008
Melancholy
I've been feeling a little strange for the last few days, I was trying to explain to Wayne yesterday morning how I was feeling and couldn't think of the right word. I'm not really sad, or down, or blue or depressed but I'm not quite right. (no comments please!) I finally lay awake last night and decided that melancholy is the perfect word to describe my mood at the moment, "A feeling of thoughtful sadness."
There have been lots of happy things happening around here recently but with all the happy things come periods of change and I think that is what is making me look back on the last few years and has pushed me into this deeply thoughtful and quietly sad phase. You know that saying when your daughter is getting married that you should look on it as not losing a daughter but gaining a son? Some days at the moment I can only see the losses, the things that are not going to be there any more in the next couple of years and other days I can only see the gains and all the good things that are to come.
This week needs to be a week of reflection, of carefully making plans and finalising certain things and of shaking off this thoughtfull phase. I sat down yesterday and knitted something that I wanted to knit for the first time in ages (photos later on this week if I can persuade Trinity to model for me) and this morning I had a quick 5 minute cuddle with my neighbours newborn baby. Its the little things like that which will keep me going until I can shake the melancholy.
I also self prescribe home made cheesecake (its on my list of things to do today), an hour or so of strawberry picking with the kids, EVITA soundtrack this afternoon while I'm writing some job specs out and the thought of teaching knitted flower classes at a knitting group tomorrow evening. Focus on the little things.....
Plan for the rest of the week - big shop update tomorrow, finish some sewing that I started last week, lots of website work and a wee bit of experimenting with new yarns and dye methods.
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June 07, 2008
All about the yak yarn
The good news, a little shop update is in progress now and will be done by 1pm - not much on today I'm afraid but the first 20 or so skeins of yak are on there.
Specs - 100% yak yarn, 470 yards to 100g, sock ish weight. Beautifully soft.
Sue made this gorgeous scarf out of 1 skein of the yarn, it looks lovely doesn't it? She said that she enjoyed working with the yarn and that it was lovely and soft. Some of the dye did come off on her fingers while she was knitting but we tested another couple of skeins and they seemed OK so I'm hoping it was just a one off. I believe this is her daughter modelling the scarf, see how many times it wraps around her neck? I dont know exactly how long it is but it looks plenty long enough to me!
There will be a nice big shop update early next week. I'm currently suffering from a short period of TOO MUCH DO TO itis but it should be lifting in the next few weeks. (she says hopefully) I'm strictly limiting my fun time until I've got everything done - think it should take another couple of weeks before I can start to breathe easily again....
PS - I'm having problems with comments at the moment, I installed a new anti spam thing a few days ago and now cant approve comments. Sigh. Feel free to leave a comment, I'll see it and it will appear here at some point when I work out how to uninstall what I installed. You'd think I'd learn to leave stuff alone now wouldn't you?
PPS - Sue commented just now to say this
"The scarf measures @ 104"/265cm long and 9"/23cm wide. Now it's been washed, it's even softer and very cosy. It was lovely to knit and my daughter (as pictured) says it's lovely to wear, too!"
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June 03, 2008
Reviews
The reviews software has been installed on the shop site, you'll see when you open an item that you have the chance to review it at the bottom. Go and have a play if you like! I'm out of here now until Friday so more on how the reviews are working then. xx
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Extensions
I plaited extensions into Brooke's hair on Sunday for the second time, I'm still not very good but I am getting better. The trickiest bit seems to be starting off, see below how the beginning of the extensions has slipped back a couple of inches from the front of her head? They are supposed to be right at the hairline. Must practice that.
She loves them though, tells me that it makes her feel really grown up. I didnt get too carried away, I wanted it to be reasonable for her to go to school with and not crazy. I might try and do some funky ones for the summer holidays but these only took an hour which is not much more than it usually takes me to plait her hair so I'm happy with them for school type extensions.
Cameron was fascinated by what I was doing with the fake hair and sat enthralled for nearly the whole time I was plaiting! I am all out of fake hair now though so a trip to Finsbury park in London is in order over the next few weeks so that I can restock.
I'm working away from home for a couple of days so I'll be back on Friday with a big shop update and lots of news. I've had a really physical day today, lots of carrying of boxes and moving large furniture around. I ache!
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June 02, 2008
New magazine subscription
I used to give myself a yarn / fabric / fun budget each month and I used to be sure to spend it fully. This year has been much harder for me financially now that Trinity has started going into nursery a couple of days a week and my fun budget has been reduced to just £20 a month. That's OK really as I don't actually have much time to do anything other than work and family stuff these days so I really dont need to be expanding the stash.
What it does mean though is that when I really want something I have to save up a bit to get it. I recently took out a subscription to Ottobre magazine which took 2 months fun budget but oh my goodness, it was so worth it.
My first copy of my subscription arrived last Wednesday (right in the middle of magazine madness, which is still ongoing but should be finished soon) along with the free copy that I received for taking out a subscription. I saved them to read at the weekend and they are just amazing. So many patterns that I want to try out and lots and lots of inspiration just by looking at them.
Brooke has been through them and chosen lots of clothes that she wants me to make for her and Trinity and Cameron (typically for him) picked the most complicated design and asked me to sew him a shirt. Hmm, think I'll practise on some of the easier ones for a while first!
We had such a busy weekend, we got all of the HipKnits project club final packages out in the post (more on that later in the week), went shopping at Lakeside, then out to lunch with some friends, out to a BBQ with family in the evening and finally I spent all day yesterday working on the magazine and cooking dinner. I almost feel as though I'm half way into my week even though today is first day back at school after half term. Speaking of which, its almost half seven and none of the kids are up (why does this only happen in the week and not on a Sunday?) so I need to go and start switching on lights and waking people if I have any hope of getting all 4 of us up and dressed and ready for the day in the next hour or so!
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