princessdeia

December 19th 2006
Filed under General

We have been so busy with the shop and trying to get our wedding invitations out before Christmas, I have no time to update.
Something, that has been made worse as my camera has broken.

But even worse than that, I have had no time to knit.
I was planning on knitting some socks for my family as stocking fillers, and I haven’t picked up my DPN’s in over a month. 
I even joined up to Who Wouldn’t Love a Handknitted Gift KAL and haven’t been back to the blog once.

I feel really out of it – regarding knitting and blogging lately, I am sure there are hundreds of interesting patterns I am missing out on.

I did start the green cropped cardigan from KNIT 1, a few weeks ago. The body is knitting in five parts, the back, two fronts and two side panels, each part is quite small – and it is on large needles, so it is easy to knit a part in two evenings, assuming you can find a spare evening or two to knit.

I would love to wear it on Christmas day – we will have to wait and see.

November 21st 2006
Filed under General

It has been nearly a month since my last entry, in the last month, I have been working 14 hour days and donned many hats
…From birthday girl
…To builder
…To shop fitter
…To purchasers
…To window dresser
…To web designer
…To shop keeper, and no where have I had the chance to be a knitter or blogger.

However, on the plus side, I can finally announce what my top secret project from the summer was… Jason and his friend Marten have gone into partnership selling Persian rugs, decorative glass and ironware and candles.

After months of sourcing suppliers, thinking of a name (Near & Far), learning to set up an e-commerce site and hunting for a premises.

Finally, they have a shop in St Margaret’s, in south-west London. We are just waiting for the sign painter to do his thing before we look like a proper shop!

July 14th 2006
Filed under General

It is very hard to update at the moment, as I am unable to talk about a lot that is going on. I am working on a something major and until it is all finalized, I can’t talk about it. As for my current knitting project, that currently for my One Skein Secret Pal, so I am unable to post about that either.

My World Cup Cardigan is still on hold, as it is too big to carry around with me (I am busy travelling a lot this week). After that, I think I will finally start knitting the Felted Tote from the One Skein book, oh and another pair of socks

June 22nd 2006
Filed under General, Project Spectrum, Swaps

Yesterday we went to Royal Ascot and we finally got to see the new grandstand, unfortunately I had dead batteries in my camera and was unable to buy replacements. here should be photos of my in my hat, drinking Pimms and losing money!

Also whilst I was out the postman delivered my first package from my Secret Pal. So this morning, after a quick trip to the post office and shop to buy some batteries, I got to examine my goodies.

Inside was two skeins of this amazing Colinette Point 5 yarn – I have never seen it before and it is amazing! I think it will make a luscious scarf for the autumn.

Also was a collection of scrap-booking supplies all in shades of blue – just in time for me to make my Postcard for June’s Project Spectrum.

Finally, a Su Duko book for some brain training and candles.

June 19th 2006
Filed under General

Part of the rules of the Knitting World Cup, you have to choose a project you will find a challenge. So what is challenging about my project after all it is a cardigan and I have knitted a few of them before.

Well first off, completing a project in 30 days is a major challenge for me, but most importantly this is the first project I will be knitting without a pattern. I have made a few items before where I have adapted a pattern but this is totally out of my head.

Originally, it was meant to knit the Chanel Jacket (pdf file) from Knit Scene, but I figured that wasn’t enough of a challenge. I love cardigans that are knitted top-down, as they knit up so quickly, so I figured this was the way to go, to insure that I will complete it in time… And it seems to be working!

June 12th 2006
Filed under General, Project Spectrum

This pretty much a “bear” representation of our weekend, Friday afternoon, Jason began his month long marathon of watching football matches and I started knitting, I manage to cast on my cardigan during the Germany/Costa Rica game, and did a little more over the Poland/Ecuador match.

Saturday was devoted to enjoying the sun, watching the England game and catching up with friends. On Sunday, I started knitting some blue squares for Knit-a-river, perfect for stash-busting and also for this month Project Spectrum.

May 30th 2006
Filed under General

I had a wonderful weekend helping my sister celebrate her birthday, on Saturday we went to Bicester Village, for some extreme shopping, my poor credit card. Then on Monday, we watched Friends with Money and had an amazing meal at Harlem (corn bread and mac and cheese).

Not much knitting has been done, I started the sleeve for my striped sweater, I am going to have cap sleeves, all in wine with raglan sleeve. I am hoping to finishe both of them this evening whilst watching TV.

I have also signed up for World Cup KAL, as I am already a football widow; it is just like the Knitting Olympics, only over 30 days rather than two weeks. I just need to think what I am going to make, I have some lovely Navy Aurora 4 Yarn that I have wanted to make into a cardigan, something like the Chanel Jacket (pdf file) from Knit Scene I guess I could make that in four weeks, or I could make the crochet dress (but this is meant to be a Knitting KAL). Once I have sorted out that dilemma, I can move on to my next one should I watch England in the final or complete the KAL (Yes I do Believe).

February 14th 2006
Filed under General, Wedding

Jason and I have put Valentine’s Day on hold as my dad is in hospital and I wasn’t really in the mood to celebrate. However it is impossible not to be drawn in to all the love and hearts that surrounds us at this time of year.

Both Jason and I both loved Love Heart sweets as children and when we first started dating we started buying them for each other. In more recent years we have been buying them by the box load. When it came to picking a theme for our wedding it became the obvious idea to use these sweets, once we looked into it we have found this idea works as we have found invites, favours, cake and even disposable cameras all in the Love Hearts theme.

Although, I am hoping to make my own own stationary and even design a website around the Love Heart theme especially, as they now do “modern” sweets with Website and Email Me written on them (see above).

Added to this I love the purple colour of the sweets and am hoping to have the bridesmaid dressing in this purple and am accent of the pink on the tables. Then just to top it off today whilst catching up on my reading in blog-land today, I saw the most amazing yarn at Tracy’s blog – Australian Sock Wool in Love Hearts – the colours are perfect, do you think I can ask the bridesmaids to wear hand knitted socks with there dresses.

January 24th 2006
Filed under General, Travels, Wedding

I don’t really talk about non-crafty things in this journal I have a livejournal that I use for that kind of thing, But once in a while something amazing happens and it has to be recorded everywhere.

On the 16^th January – 8 years after I started dating Jason we decided to get engaged. We had been talking about it for ages and brought the ring earlier this year – but decided to make it official whilst in Chicago on our anniversary.

Our wedding is now booked for next March and I am completely in wedding mode, as I prepare to no longer be a “miss.”

Needless to say very little knitting has been done and to make matters worst I have taken up scrapbooking to try and archive our engagement and wedding – now I really need an extra hour in the day.

November 12th 2005
Filed under Swaps

For personal reason, Jason and I have been spending a lot of time with his parents in Stevenage, whenever I come back home I find a little parcel waiting for me from my Secret Pal, it is so lovely. I am always pleasant surprised with my presents seeing what little bit of information they have take from my questionnaire and what they have done with it. Like this funky little baby tee to add to my increasing collection. I love this Fat Boy logo – it reminds me of the Big Boy spaceship in Austin Powers (groovy baby).

The logo on the bottom of the t-shirt says UNLV – could this be a clue to my SP’s identity – I know they live in Las Vegas, but are they a student or a lecturer there, oh I need Grissom to help me out with this one I think.

In knitting news, I have finished three of the Xmas scarves, unfortunately, I have decided I love the multi-directional scarf too much to give up – it looks amazing with my new jacket – I had to buy more wool to make another one for me